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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Well go look at the seasons they have had. It’s pretty close.
2.70 gaa .912 save % Smith
2.71 gaa .910 save % Markstrom
So if you think Markstrom is a top goalie, Smith had similar seasons so he would be a top goalie as well. We paid a 3rd, Hickey and a backup form him.
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Save percentages all over the league were higher when Smith was playing. Not directly comparable.
And the price for a goalie during the off season, coming from a team in the bottom of a rebuild that does not want to keep that goalie, is very different from the price at the deadline in a deal between two teams with similar odds of making the playoffs. Hell,
every player is liable to go for more at the deadline than any other time of year.
The bottom line is, Fitzgerald went after three good goalies: Markstrom, Saros, and Ullmark. He wasn't willing to trade Mercer for any of them, and none of those three teams were willing to trade their goalies unless they got Mercer. So he went out instead and traded junk for junk.