I don’t hate keeping Markstrom. Getting a haul to use for a retool/rebuild would be great. But avoiding being a team that evokes toilet bowl metaphors with bottom of the standings play would suck on a cold winter’s night for the next couple years. Add on the benefit of having Marky around to mentor Wolf and helping make the team at least somewhat competitive to create a positive environment for all the young players who will wear the uniform in the next couple years has value. I’m good with either option, and if an overpay wasn’t on the table then I like keeping him around. I haven’t forgotten what it’s like having crappy goalies, so unless it’s worth it why throw one away. Outside of Vernon, Kipper and Marky with honourable mention to Lemelin and Riggin the Flames goalies have ranged from mediocre to embarrassingly bad since forever.
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