The tradePanthers get: Goalie Jacob Markstrom, forward Angus CrookshankDevils get: Forwards Evan Rodrigues, Jesper Boqvist, Ben SteevesSean Gentille: The big-picture reason to care about this one is that it signals Sergei Bobrovsky’s exit from South Florida. Two Stanley Cup championships and $70 million in the bank over seven years? Not a bad run. Good luck in Toronto or wherever the road takes you on July 1, Officer Bobrovsky.Florida, rather than meet Bobrovsky’s (presumably) prohibitive contract requirements, is now set to head into next season with Markstrom and unsigned RFA Akira Schmid as its primary goaltending tandem. Between them, Markstrom and Schmid will carry a cap hit of $8.5 million or thereabouts. Bobrovsky’s last deal counted for $10 million annually.Based solely on the 2025-26 season, the Panthers — a team that needs every dollar it can squeeze from other spots to fill out its bottom six — have made a prudent financial decision. Markstrom, maligned as he might’ve been in Jersey, posted a higher save percentage (.882 to .876) and similar goals-saved above expected numbers on public models.That, of course, doesn’t account for Bobrovsky’s playoff resume or Markstrom’s rough two-year run as the Devils’ latest non-answer at the position, but we’re still going to bet on this largely working out for Florida. We’ve seen too many goaltenders leave the Devils and figure things out, to one degree or another, and the Panthers — somewhat famously — are good at this whole team-building thing. They now have money to sign defenseman Radko Gudas and potentially a fresh, market-efficient fourth-liner, and the goalie market is barren enough to make you wonder what would’ve been behind Door No. 2 for a contender of their caliber. No issues there. He makes sense for the Panthers.