When the Calgary Flames signed Jacob Markstrom on Oct. 9, 2020, they expected to be adding one of the NHL’s top goaltenders to their organization.
Only eight goaltenders (Carey Price, Sergei Bobrovsky, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Marc-Andre Fleury, Tuukka Rask, John Gibson, Matt Murray, and Connor Hellebuyck) boasted higher salary cap hits than Markstrom during the 2020–21 season.
Markstrom finished fourth in Vezina Trophy voting during the 2019–20 campaign, his final year with the Vancouver Canucks. He posted a 23-16-4 record that season to go along with a .918 save percentage and — per Evolving-Hockey — 3.