Rejoint: mai 2015
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Calgary wins this, and the amount of people who wanted to pay big assets to acquire Markstrom boggle my mind. Markstrom has been a good goalie who has occasionally been great, but more often good. I'd have been very happy to have him as my started over the last 5ish years. But he's 34. That is well PAST the prime of the majority of goalies. Can he keep it up longer? Sure. Is he likely to? Impossible to say, but statistically he's likely to decline soon. Maybe this year, maybe in a few years. But even if you look at his last few years: Dominant 3 years ago, really bad 2 years ago, good but not great last year. I'd have signed him if he was a UFA this year without question if I needed a goalie and take the gamble. But I wouldn't go out of my way to pay significant assets to acquire him today at 34. Particularly with his contract, though certainly made more palatable by the retention.
Calgary wins by getting more than a middling return.