Unless the buyout is coming out of your pocket, it shouldn't matter to you. The Flames won't be a contender in the ne t couple years so it doesn't matter.
He was signed without giving up anything except someone else's money, if it can get the Flames a player like Mercer, that's a win.
Let me ask you, if the Flames could use cap space to buy a different teams top young player and draft pick, wouldn't you? They already have their goalie of the future, they have Vladar who is capable of starting games, and they'll likely get Vanecek in the trade. Trading markstrom actually solves a problem for the Flames, and they can get assets at the same time?
Signing Markstrom was a great move at the time, and trading him now is a great move.
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