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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Agreed
I think in the offseason you could see a goalie trade market that includes:
Ullmark
Saros
Markstrom
Thompson
Gibson
Binnington
And then you also have the following veteran free agents:
Cam Talbot: .913
Jonathan Quick: .916
Anthony Stolarz: .925
Laurent Brossoit: .922
Alex Nedeljkovic: .915
Kaapo Kahkonen: .901
MA Fleury: .899
Suddenly teams looking for a goalie in a trade have other top end options available potentially if Ullmark and Saros hit the market. And while none of those free agents are long term solutions, the Devils might think it's better to keep the assets, and just sign a veteran that can play 40 games and share the net with Daws.
I've made way too many posts about this in the past week, but I really can't shake the feeling that the Flames really missed an opportunity to sell Markstrom at peak value to the Devils a week or two ago, and potentially were too focused on a single player as the return.
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Yeah, gotta agree on this.
If Markstrom played like this last year this team would have made the playoffs easily. He cost us big time.
Now he's bounced back and it's costing the team again, but in a different way. Now it's costing us a high draft pick and a legit chance at maybe getting a top line player or superstar at or near the top of the draft board.
The least the Flames could do is cash in on his amazing rebound season and not only get themselves some more future pieces, but also inevitably improve their draft position in the upcoming draft.
It's hard to be too upset though because despite all the rumors out there, the bottom line is we don't really know what offers were rejected or what return was actually on the table.