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Originally Posted by cannon7
You can like the young players you have and still recognize that you won't have the horses to contend next season.
You can also recognize that the UFA market, even if you overpay and exhaust your available cap, doesn't have these horses either.
So short some miracle trade, the best move is likely still to trade Markstrom this summer. The team in front of him will be weaker next season, as such it is not a good gamble to keep him and have his value slide.
I assume this is why people are still obsessing over this trade?
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I think that goaltender values are a lot more volatile than skaters. If Markstrom, turning 35 next season, opens October with a .890 save percentage, suddenly with two more years left on his deal at $6 million what's his value on the market?
Not saying the Flames should or shouldn't have made the deal before the deadline but those are valid concerns.