I don't think it's unreasonable. If you're going to play Goalie musical chairs, you want to get the most out of the goalie that finds himself the odd man out while also letting your new prized possession get games under his belt.
I'd personally prefer Markstrom to stay and ship Vladar out (Wolf and Marky over the next two years would be solid), but if you look at it from a top-down point of view, Markstrom can better help fill pieces the team needs to re-tool outside of the goaltending position. And I think Vladar has proven himself enough to be reliable as a backup and stand-in at the NHL level if Wolf begins to struggle.
Markstrom is also currently on a heater, and we've seem him when he's been off his game, which at his lowest, is not much better than Vladar. I bet Conny seems this as an opportunity to get the most value out of him. I'm not sure this would be rumor-worthy if Marky was ice cold.
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