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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Martin Jones was traded in 2015 for first a 1st and a prospect.
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Those are some good examples for goalies returning really good picks in a trade. At the time, those were younger goaltenders that looked ready to be high quality starters. Markstrom is a different asset due to his age. He likely only has two years left (at most) after this one where he is considered a legit NHL #1 goalie. And that’s if he keeps playing like he has this year. Goalies are voodoo though. So many of them fluctuate year-to-year between Vezina-quality and absolute liability. There may be only 3-4 goalies in the league that are consistently good year after year - and even they struggle to do that.
Hopefully if they do trade Markstrom it’s for a great return. I doubt management/ownership would do it but I think you could get a great return on Markstrom right now if you were to retain a decent amount of his salary. Say 30-40%. That’s a lot of money to play a player not to play for you but Markstrom at a cap hit of around $3.5 or $4 million is a pretty good contract. At that point, I would expect to get a first round pick at least.