If you were willing to trade and retain salary on Markstrom, then logically you should be willing to trade him for a lesser package if NJ is willing to do it with no retention and then do what NJ did and use the cap space with another team to accommodate some other trade and buy more picks.
Regardless you don’t just trade Markstrom for the sake of trading no matter how pouty he or others are, you make the trade it NJ steps up and gives you Mercer and a 1st. And really, that’s fair.
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