Quoting: dgibb10
See Fleury, Marc Andre
Every single ounce of value Markstrom has comes from retention.
Outside of that he’s a 35 year old expensive goalie who’s been sub 0.900 over the last 2 years.
Georgiev-Annunen
Andersen-Pyotr
Talbot-Rittich
Woll-Samsonov
All of these teams are listed as potential buyers, yet all have duos who have outperformed Markstrom over the last 2 years, and all are cap strapped in other areas. Without retention Markstrom isn’t particularly valuable.
Keep telling yourself that bud lol. You all want Markstrom but keep saying he sucks and isn’t worth anything and that Fitz holds all the key & leverage after failing miserably the season before and everyone knows he’s desperate for a Goalie even dangling 10OA out there. Classic CapFriendly Homer BS AFAIC
None of those guys are or were rated as 90-1A Goalies except Andersen who has blood clotting issues = risky
MAF was Traded at the deadline, so 50% = $3.5mil x ~20% of the season and his salary due = ~<$700k paid by CHI. If you’re talking about his Trade out of VGK than your absolutely nuts, Flames aren’t in the same position where they need to clear cap.
Conversely you guys want $4-6mil paid/retained by the Flames; that’s like 5.5-9x times the amount of cash out of pocket for the Flames. No wonder ownership said hell no. We paid a 1st on Top of giving Monahan away for nothing to have somebody else pay his $6.375mil owing
If you don’t want or value an ~$8mil/yr Elite 1A Goaltender with a Cap Hit of only $6mil (possibly $3-4mil/yr with retention), then go pound salt and do what you did last year again. Don’t matter to me, no sweat off my 🥜
@MoxNix isn’t wrong, Y’all are coming across as very cheap and super bias trolls on here lately, I’m just hoping for and trying to justify the best return possible for a guy I think is a baby, sucks and I can’t wait to see gone if I’m being perfectly honest