Amazing how many people are completely oblivious to the market for goalies, including TSN.
Solid goalies are going for a dime a dozen right now. Just today Fahst and Bryzgalov went for draft picks.
A year ago, we couldn't even get Scrivens and two 2nd round picks for Luongo. Now we get Markstrom and Matthias, which is a better return.
And are people really questioning Markstom's numbers playing for Florida? It's the Panthers people. Tim Thomas has a 2.87 GAA and a .908 SV% and he's a pretty good goalie. Markstrom is just 24 now and has a ton of seasoning in the SEL and AHL. He can still be that elite goalie. Along with Lack, we have a pretty good tandem going forward.
Don't know why anyone would complain about getting younger. Even with Lu this team isn't good enough, and his value will only go down until we wouldn't have been able to get anything.
Luongo, Schneider, or Lack, it was never about the goaltending with this team. Any one of these guys gave us a chance to win, but it has been the team in front of them that can't get it done. Now with an extra 4 million dollars, plus whatever other cap space we trade, we can finally start filling the holes this team has had for the last 3 years, and start injecting some youth that will play with speed and passion.