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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Mercer helps them now.
The coaches trust him now.
Who knows when the 10th overall pick makes the roster, much less earns the coach’s trust to be out on the ice in key playoff situations.
Mercer is already that guy.
Ordinarily, the price would be high for a goalie.
But Jersey doesn’t have any other major needs.
They don’t need a centre.
They were so flush with wingers they gave us Sharangovich.
They’re deep on the blue line to the point posters have argued to me the inclusion of Rasmus Andersson does nothing for them.
They need a goalie.
Their Trump card to beat any competing offer for whoever they want is the 10th overall pick.
They want Markstrom.
It costs what it costs.
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I agree with your take on Markstrom, but teams are always looking to upgrade. They didn’t give up sharangovich because they were flush with wingers. They gave him up because they got another — better in most people’s minds — winger in Toffoli.
One of the snags in these discussions— and part of the hardball over the trade deadline— might be partly around that deal. Fitzgerald is probably feeling it a bit internally and externally that he gave up a potentially better winger for one year of Toffoli who scored some goals but probably didn’t move the needle anymore than sharangovich if he had been given the same d chance.
If I were a New Jersey fan, I’d be pretty pissed if Fitz made another deal where he clearly got the short end of the stick. Conroy would look like a bit of a puppet master and no GM wants to be taken twice by a colleague. Once is enough.