Considering what Kuemper went for a few years ago made sense this is the price tag

Now will NJ get the good Markstrom or bad one is the question

He played alongside one of the most defensively responsible dmen in the NHL last year

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.

Markstrom is 34 vs Kuemper was about 29 or 30

Sure, but the knock on Bahl was that he isn't great at breaking pucks out. In Calgary he can defer that to Weegar/Andersson and focus on shutdown role.

I'd say fair to slightly in favor of CGY.

If you look at Markstrom over the last 4 seasons, he has 1 season with a SV% above .905 which isn't great. His GSAA rank over the last 4 seasons:

'23-'24: 9th
'22'-'23: 77th
'21-'22: 12th
'20-'21: 81st

He's 34yrs old and its not like he's got development left. With that said, I would lean more towards CGY if they weren't retaining on this deal.

Both players under contract…it’s not like either was FA signing. I am not worried about age so much.



Listen, Bruins fan, not all of us can prance around with two Vezina candidates. If he gives us 50 starts at .910 we are already a much better team.

We were all told he was going to cost only a 2nd?

I’ll give a slight edge to NJ, mainly for getting the retention. Pretty fair trade in my eyes, Calgary gets a 1st in a deep draft for 2025, and a decent nhl level Dman and NJ gets their starting G for at least 2 years at a manageable cap hit. Win win

“Isn’t great” is sugarcoating it. He is simply bad at passing the puck. Defends, disrupts well…but is not a good fit for any team built on possession and transition game.

Pat Steinberg tweet: “Jacob Markstrom has a full NMC and Devils were the team he and his camp were focused on all along. Getting a deal done this summer was in best interests of both Calgary and Markstrom.”

If Markstrom was only waiving to NJD…it’s a good return for Calgary.

(But it’s probably still less than Holtz offer at deadline)

Seems fair. This is why I think Saros gets more than a 1st W/o retention.

Yeah, that's a little bit overconfident for a near 35 y.o. goalie coming out of a lower-body injury plagued season.

its alright for both teams, for now, I'll say Calgary got the deal, Markstrom is 34 yrs limited time left, Bahl's 23 and already played a full season (81 games) at NHL level, besides the first round pick. Good luck Washington.

A perfectly reasonable price to pay for a starting goalie.

I'm sure this will do nothing to stop the wave of people saying Ullmark will cost Ottawa Chychrun, a 1st ++

Absolute joke. Hopefully Devils fire Fitzgerald before the trade deadline.

Who needs 1st round picks, who needs to develop prospects, F**k it, just overpay for aging players. Look over here we have the Hughes brothers.

I'm not sure I like this trade as a precedent for a potential Ullmark deal. I'd expect Sweeney to keep both goalies if that's the return.

Calgary retains over 30%.

1st rounder is top 10 protected, so Devils can tank and still have Markstrom for another year.

It's Kevin Bahl, not someone like Nemec or Hughes. Not a needle mover.

Devils win.

All this to just miss the playoffs because of the flyers

vanecek 2.0 but older and more expensive

if we suck next year it's a fair deal, if we're mediocre at worst calgary fleeced us

thanks fitz

Darren Dreger tweet “Credit Markstrom for allowing Cgy to expand trade discussions with other clubs. Calgary was given flexibility to see what the true market was. There were discussions with other clubs…Ott and Tor included. In the end the best deal was made with the Devils.“

Sounds like Markstrom allowed other teams in at some point.

On the one hand Markstrom hasn't been good in a long time, On the other the Flames didn't get much in return, A likely late 1st and Kevin Bahl
Im gonna say fair trade

If New Jersey gets significantly worse the next two seasons, then Calgary wins this deal. I don't think that's happening. They would have to be bottom ten both years for Calgary to get enough value with the retention.
If New Jersey makes the playoffs this season, then they win the deal. I think that's going to happen.

New Jersey wins.

Bahl scored just 11 points last year. Meanwhile, he took three times more penalties than he drew and his on-ice goal differential was ~10 below expected. He's not worth $1 million.

We just got a good goalie without giving up any good players…I don’t really know how Devils fans would be upset with the deal.