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Originally Posted by Flamescuprun2018

When I put in 3 million cap relief X 2 years I get a 29th overall 1st round pick in return. Source: https://puckpedia.com/CapRelief

Markstrom's GSAA this year was top 10 in league which slipped from a much higher level pre-NJ trade noise in early March. His quality starts stopped almost completely after those rumors.

What are comparable trades of a starting goalie?

About the best you can hope for in a return for your starter, it seems, is a mid-to-high first round pick. A return like that could be great, or terrible. At the end of the day, it's an unknown commodity when you acquire it.

Source: https://thehockeynews.com/news/tradi...hit-a-home-run


A 29th 1st round pick (retention value) and 17th 1st round pick = 10th overall per Source: https://puckpedia.com/pickvalue

Is Markstrom's unretained value a 17th overall equivalent?

Source: https://www.espn.com/nhl/insider/sto...best-2023-2024 (Feb 15, 2024 before trade deadline)

"His numbers are off the chart," a goaltending analyst said. "He's ahead of Demko, ahead of Hellebuyck, ahead of everyone." Maybe it's an oversight or carryover from last season's dud under coach Darryl Sutter. Whatever the case, the goalie who is second in the NHL is goals saved above expected (18.4) and building a Vezina case with a .916 save percentage...

If you retained 50% and also included the 28th pick the value of Markstrom is apparently only the 34th overall pick. If you had to add even more to it to get the great 10th overall pick Markstrom’s value would drop even more. The idea that Markstrom is almost worthless (which would be the scenario if you added even more than the Van pick) is laughable. The idea that he is worth marginally more than Jake Allen is also laughable. I don’t think you need to add anything if you are eating 3 million a year.