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Originally Posted by butterfly
It isn't just Adin Hill. Pick a random year and do a scatterplot of goaltender salary vs. however you choose to define goaltender skill. There's a negligible relationship.
It's much better to put the money toward 20-32 year old defense and forwards.
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I don't disagree.
But when you're trying to contend and you're getting poor goaltending you generally can't just keep taking random shots at goalies from the AHL and hope it works.
A team would overpay for the idea Markstrom might be able to fix their problem, especially at only $3M. Look at how Minnesota gave up a conditional first for Fleury who was at $7M and they only retained the $3.5M for one season.
If at the deadline a team could get Markstrom for very little cap hit in year (salary pro-ration + retention) and then for 2 more years at only $3M there would be a team that would overpay. No doubt in my mind.