How did the Canucks let Markstrom walk? | OverDrive

Bryan Hayes, Jeff O’Neill and Jonas Siegel share their thoughts on the Canucks' poor start to the season and how much their results are pointing to the loss of Jacob Markstrom.

[jakegidley]

Heard the reason he left was because the Canuaks wouldn’t give him protection against the expansion draft

[Kidhyuggyboyy]

it was all up to the NMC. canucks didn’t want to protect markstrom from Seattle, but Markstrom did.

[dannydevito]

The expansion draft? I’d say it’s pretty obvious as to why

[Andrew-tnmf]

wow i didn't realize markstrom made such a difference on the power play. and how his presence caused our skaters to take less boneheaded penalties.

goaltending is the least of the canucks problems right now. has it been amazing? no, but it's not the reason we're 1-3 either.

[ETC_]

If you look at the guys they have to sign over the next couple of years with Petterson and Hughes they couldn't afford to keep him, and Demko had an unreal playoff. If they kept him I guarantee 2 years from now people would be talking about how they messed up signing a 30+ yr old goalie to that big of a contract.

[Brice]

How did Canucks let Markstrom walk? I dunno Demko is 5 years younger, and another thing the season is only 4 games old.

[gradysas]

Three Toronto media members and not one got it right. Shows you the lack of research they do when talking about markets outside of the TO bubble

[nhlvan]

Man these guys in Toronto really don't know anything that is going on in the rest of the league. The rumour was Markstrom was willing to take a contract as cheap as 5Mx5 as long as he had an NMC, because he while really wanted to stay in Vancouver, he wanted to control his future playing location more. The Canucks weren't willing to give him the NMC so he went off to the highest bidder who would offer him an NMC, which happened to be Calgary.

[likeag]

Flames fan here, season is still really young. Markstrom had two great games against the Canucks and now the sky seems like it's falling in Vancouver. Even I can recognize that Markstrom is inevitably gonna have some real stinkers and then the headlines will be different. "Markstrom contract handcuffs the Flames". People are overreacting big time.

I do think that Vancouver's off-season was rather poor though. Letting Markstrom walk when they maybe could have saved him from the expansion draft with a pick or two sent to Seattle was bad but I could see why they did it. Letting Tanev walk when he was such a good partner for Hughes was inadvisable but I can understand they weren't able to afford him. Letting Toffoli go after giving up so much was really dumb. He fit in as a really solid top-6 guy.

You would have to think that there was some way of keeping at least one of those guys around.

[Drakraxxx]

Why are these hosts making such criticism after the fact? If they were so smart and confident in their assessement, should have made these comments back in October. Now they just look like cronies throwing oil in the fire.

In an alternate reality, the same hosts are complaining about Canucks signing Markstrom and how they have used up all their cap and can not sign UFAs, make trades and keep Demko.

[jakegidley]

You can only protect 1 goalie and Demko Vancouver believes is there future.

[MrTheWanz]

Lmfaoooo NMC, and 6 mil a year...talk to me in 2 years

[millionfish]

It's because of the dead money (Luongo cap recapture for another season at 3, Spooner for this season at a million, Baertschi at 2.3 for this year, Eriksson at 6 for another 2 years, Sutter at 4.3 for this year, they also overpaid for Myers) that they couldn't bring back Markstrom and Toffoli. Also Virtanen is a bust, Gaudette is close to being one. So the decisions of previous and current managements have handcuffed this team for a few more years.

[canucks]

You guys are right, Markstrom was a huge part of the PP

[SURVIVORkid]

Markstrom wanted a no movement clause which means Seattle would 100% take Demko, & Demko is the future in Vancouver. Vancouver wasn’t willing to give him the no movement clause because they didn’t want to lose Demko next season, simple as that

[cole]

First he wanted draft protection, 2nd he was the best goalie in free agency, any team could of signed him, 3rd Vancouver just couldn't afford another 6 million contract with Hughes petterson contracts coming up. Its not rocket science why it was the right decision to let him go.

[skeletor]

Goaltending isn't the issue. The team isn't winning pick battles and passes are way off. Not to mention stupid penalties. Not blaming the offical either. The team is not in it and it's clear. Those chances they give up are not goaltending issues.

[tjf]

Its 4 games into the season calm down. Markstrom is also prone to a lot of bad games as well. Even if the canucks take a step back this season is it really that big of a deal considering the circumstances with the Canadian bubble.

[minidwarfdude]

I used to play on gta 5 online with markstrom in 2013 lol just searched up his name on the internet and found him here wow

[declaninc]

Demko at 25 is apparently untouchable after having 3 good games and Markstrom isn't despite carrying us for 2 YEARS straight. "Oh but in 6 years he won't be good". But our window was supposed to be NOW.