To be fair I heard most Flames fans say they wouldn’t trade Markstrom for less than 10th overall if not 10th overall+. NJ fans weren’t the only ones being biased with Markstrom valuations

Why? This seems awful

There was certainly a select group like every fan base! Dopes everywhere

Flames fans were being absolutely ridiculous about Markstrom.

Their bidding war nonsense was laughable.. lol 😆

Fitzgerald has been mostly good in his moves but I think this was a really bad trade for NJ.

Presumably the team has given up on Holtz and views cotter as worth 3 mill (making him 4.5 mill in surplus value over his contract +RFA control after). If they view him as equivalent to a Dakota Joshua for example

I don’t like it at all but that would be the presumed logic

He's hitting the Copium hard.

Can't have a bidding war with a full NMC, its like Leaf fans with Marner.

Seems kinda quick to move on. At least from afar, seems like next year would be make or break. I mean, Cotter has decent value at min.

Well that, but was there really gonna be a bidding war for a 34 year old $6M goalie, just didn't see it happening myself.

I expected a wait until his ELC was done, but I guess if you know internally then you know.

Cotters value as a league minimum for 2 more years +RFA control is going understated imo tho, although certainly a bad deal. I also would have preferred to move daws instead of schmid

After a year plus of being told Holtz was worth a first+ by NJD fans LMAO😂