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Originally Posted by dgibb10
All of those teams have older cores. NJD is still a top 5 youngest team in hockey. If we make the playoffs we'll be the youngest team in the playoffs.
This is absolutely not the time to go all in.
Let's look at 3 of the goalies you mention and their acquisition costs for their current team:
Adin Hill: 4th/free to retain as UFA
Jacob Markstrom: free as a UFA
Linus Ullmark: free as a UFA
Again it's why I scoff at the idea that you can only get a top goalie via massively paying up in a trade. It is virtually the only position where you can in fact find a top guy without breaking the bank. You can't get a C like that. Even a 2C will cost you boatloads in free agency (see the ridiculous contract asks of Elias Lindholm)
Calgary was willing to offer Elias Lindholm 9 mill a year from age 31-38.
Mercer will cost at most around 6-6.5 mill AAV from age 22-29.
Personally I'd much rather have mercer over that time frame straight up, not even including the 24 million dollars you'd save
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I don't think Markstrom is worth as much as most seem to. Having said that, I see why people have problems with your arguments.
Isn't the reason why goalies are worth less money because their performance is less predictable? You're using the benefit of hindsight to make your argument.
You've also said you consider UFA prices to be the true market value of a player. In that case, acquiring a player in a trade is for a discounted player.
If you were to be intellectually honest, you would have to rephrase as such: you can't get a
proven top goalie
at a discount exactly when you want him and with minimal competing teams, without massively paying up in a trade.