Saros is the best goalie on the market, but will anyone pay Nashville GM Barry Trotz’s price?
With all due respect to Mike Dunham and Chris Mason, the Nashville Predators have only really needed three goaltenders during their 25-year history.
Any of those guys would have gotten the Devils into the playoffs in a soft Metropolitan Division. Markstrom might have improved the odds of Toronto or L.A. in their first-round defeats. Ditto for the Carolina Hurricanes, for whom floundered during a Round 2 defeat. On his A-game, Ullmark could have been a series stealer for one of those clubs. Why should anyone pay for Saros with cheaper solutions out there? Because he’s better than them, plain and simple.
Though Markstrom is a horse like Saros, he hasn’t produced consistent year-to-year results and is five years his senior. Markstrom followed up top-four Vezina finishes in 2019 and 2022 by leading the league in regulation losses and finishing with a .894 SV%, respectively. The good Markstrom was back in 2023-24, but for how long? If he hits another low ebb in Year 13, there’s no guarantee he’ll turn it around again given his age.
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