I'm not trying to pretend Jarry doesn't have any issues and he's actually this great goalie. Every issue brought up by reasonable fans with him is legitimate. He is a flawed goalie that has shown a constant trend with breaking down as the year goes on and individually cost the Penguins the only playoff series he has played in. All of that is true.
What is also true is that the status of goaltending around the league right now is downright terrible, with numerous highly paid goalies being even worse than Jarry. In the NHL right now, there are 22 goalies making $4.5 million or more. Of those 22:
-4 of those goalies did not play a game in the NHL this year (Price, Murray, Lehner and Knight)
-8 of those goalies had a .900 save% or worse this year (Vasilevskiy, Gibson, Grubauer, Merzlikins, Kuemper, Petersen, Campbell and Husso)
-Only 7 of those goalies had a .910 save% or better this year (Bobrovsky, Hellebuyck, Binnington, Shesterkin, Ullmark, Demko and Hill)
Jarry's .903 save% this year is extremely similar to Markstrom's .905 save% this year, and Markstrom was allegedly almost traded at the deadline to 2 different teams that he nixed with his NTC. Markstrom also makes more money than Jarry, is older than Jarry and still has term left on his deal. I just can't see how Jarry's either uniquely bad or had a uniquely bad contract to make me think that he'd be unmovable or a cap dump. Leaguewide goaltending just sucks right now.