Quoting: Bast
If you can get the best goalie in the NHL last year, you do it. .938sv% is absolutely crazy, and he was lights out all year. 1 year of Dube is not that outrageous to give up.
If Markstrom is so good then I'm sure we can get assets for him. Otherwise it might just make sense to trade him for someone like Murray(plus futures) who would be a cap dump for a year.
This is such a Grass is Greener way of looking at things.
Ullmark had a fantastic year, yes. Is he the best goalie in the league? God no, he only has 1 year of success at this level and Boston as a whole played out of their minds this season. Just look at Swayman (0.920sv%), Ullmark was only a little bit better than him this year. Whereas we look at last years winner, Shesterkin (0.935sv%) and compare him to his backup Georgiev (0.898sv%), its a completely night and day difference.
There is a very real chance that Bergeron retires this summer, as well as Boston will likely have to make quite a few roster changes just to be compliant. I would say it's very likely that Ullmark comes back down to earth and is a ~0.920sv% goalie again. On the flip side it is almost equally as likely that Markstrom returns to form and is also a 0.920sv% goalie again.
As for Markstrom's trade value
1. He has a full NMC so he literally can't be moved unless he wants to go
2. Due to last years performance his value is completely shot, teams are very unlikely to pay much at all for him, in fact they would most likely ask for us to pay to dump him
McDavid, Connor
$250,000)
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