You seem to be ignoring the fact that demko has sucked recently too. If demko has another year where heb is actively a negatuve impact on his team like he's been this year, you're going to have to pay to get rid of him. Out of 78 goalies with double digit starts, demko ranks 69th in GSAx per 60 with -0.485. That means on average, demko allows about half a goal more than he should. To put that in perspective, he's more bad than Vasy and Igor are good (they have a 0.472 and 0.429 respectively)

goalies can have down years, especially one one of the worst defensive teams, have dressed 15 dmen this year now, and a historically bad PK. been the team mvp the two years before that.

again, you dont know what you talking about

GSAx takes into account quality of shots against. And it has been a horrific year. Until he proves he can return to his previous level of play (and even that still puts him below Saros, Igor, Helle, Sorokin, Vasy, and a few others