First sign someone is losing a PR war…they blame the media. It’s not Eric Francis’s fault, even if he is a click-bait weenie.

If the Flames are rebuilding, then what are the devils doing? Lol 1 point behind in standings

Vlader is also bad and all the devils goalies aren’t good either lol

I don’t know why anyone assumes the Flames are “rebuilding”…..they didn’t sign Kadri and Hubby and Weegar to suck

He did not say Conroy at all. He said "up top," and it's already well known he doesn't like his name out there so much, so this is an obvious statement.

LeBrun is primarily a Habs insider, his Calgary connections are few and far between. Had Dreger reported it, that's different.

What do I think is going on here? Nothing. Francis is a **** disturber. I stand by what I said a few days ago in that Markstrom is very likely not getting traded

I’d take markstrom over any goalie the devils have, Vlader, Wolf and any of the free agent goalies

You’d hope Markstrom is a good mentor for Wolf who eventually takes over

Would you take 36 year old Markstrom over: Shesterkin, Vejmelka, Saros, Georgiev, Logan Thompson, Adin hill?

Huh? I am not blaming him at all. It's simply what Francis does. Again, Friedman and Marek said many times over the past month that Markstrom does not like his name being out there. So obviously when asked directly about the trade talks he's going to say "yes I am not happy about my name being out there."

That is not what he said though.

“Am I happy? No I’m not. I think the whole situation could’ve been handled differently from up top.”

It’s directly pointed at Flames Management, less than 24 hours after Flames announced he is not going to be traded.

He has spoken many times to media over last few weeks. One time he said, ‘not a good time to ask’ after a loss. That was the only negative thing he said. He never ripped his GM until it’s announced he won’t be dealt.

Me too.

And same for Schmid, Daws

The Devils are struggling. Have had a lot of injuries. But still trying to build momentum with the core we have now. Still a young team.

Igor isn’t a free agent or being traded
Vejmelka Isn’t a free agent, but could be traded
Saros isn’t a free agent or being traded
Georgiev isn’t a free agent or being traded
Thompson isn’t a free agent or being traded
Adin hill isn’t a free agent or being traded

Didn't they just beat you in the playoffs?

Flames aren’t rebuilding so i don’t know where that comes from

They didn’t sign Kadri, Hubby, Weegar, etc. to be bottom feeders

Didn't they fire everyone associated with those moves? I wonder why

Yea and the rangers will be right back in the playoffs again lol

While the devils need all the help they can get

They have solid Lindholm, Toffoli, Tanev, Zadorov…and like Hanifin soon…for draft picks and prospects.

Label it what you want, rebuild, retool, whatever. But if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…

Nothing about this thread has anything to do with the Rangers.

All of them are free agents after next season. Again. 1 year stopgap (which this years free agency is full of). And then a stud. Saying Saros isn’t available for trade is just straight up lying.

Also forgot about Ullmark. Swaymans rights also expire in 2 years if **** goes south. Again, you can pretend the only solution is the 34 year old all you want.

You can pretend Calgary is trying to compete.

None of it is true

I didn’t bring up the rangers lol….

Hey, if I’m wrong, so be it lol

I’ll eat my words and you devils fans will be happy to have a goalie finally

lmao you are really reaching here. He is not at all complaining about not being traded. He is clearly complaining about the noise.

(It’s a river in Egypt)

“From up top” ….he is not talking about the media

This is what I have been speculating as well. For this reason, I feel like Hanifin either ends up in Boston or Tampa and given the assets/cap space next year situations I am guessing he is going to be in Boston and the package won't be as big as people would have thought. Similar to a Taylor Hall trade from Buffalo to Boston.

A couple days ago, the reported list of teams that both expressed interest and he would extend with was TBL, BOS, FLA and NJD. Have since seen VGK added to that list by some (and some Toronto-based media tacking the Leafs onto the list).

First three don’t have 1sts this year…so that helps Devils case in keeping their 1st. But NJD offer probably attaches Markstrom.

BOS doesn’t sound like they want him as much as others. And FLA sounds like they only want as rental.

I think TBL, if they come up with assets, would be front runner, if anyone.

Yes. He is not happy about how his name got out, how he was asked if he would waive, and then how nothing happened. It affected his game, and the teams game for like a week and a half. They never should have asked him if he would waive if they weren't 100% going to trade him, the fact that he agreed to waive never should have been made public until a trade was made.

Point fingers at whoever you want but there was a lot of smoke saying the deal was essentially done and then someone pulled out. I am personally under the impression that it was Fitzy who backed off because Daws strung a few good games together, as well as maybe other reasons (people say he didn't like the idea of Conroy asking other teams or something). On top of that I am also pretty confident that Conroy would not have approached Markstrom if he did not think they had a deal ready. But none of us know for sure what happened behind those closed doors. Regardless, he is not asking for a trade, nor saying he is mad he hasn't been traded.