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Originally Posted by FanIn80
The price will be higher to acquire him from Vegas.
Pitts would just be trying to get as much as possible before losing him, and the market will be incredibly small as anyone acquiring MAF would then have to use a protection slot on him. Pitts will have to take pretty much whatever's offered to them.
Whereas Vegas will be dealing to a much larger market, and won't be as desperate as Pitts to just get anything in return. It'll be post-expansion draft, so they'll have pretty specific things they'll be looking for at that time.
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Not quite right. As Getback posted earlier, Pittsburgh will only deal Fleury if the return is at least equal to or higher than the player that Pittsburgh would then end up losing in the expansion draft in lieu of Fleury. They will still have some attractive pieces up for grabs beyond Fleury, so the price to acquire Fleury will at least be equal to or greater than their next most attractive asset.
The only way the price on Fleury is lowered is if he doesn't agree to waive. Then Pittsburgh can deal him to a team that is not named in his no trade clause, or try to have him waive for a particular team that is not on that trade clause other than Vegas (as him refusing to waive for Vegas in particular for this situation).
Pittsburgh would then be willing to basically get 'whatever they could' rather than buy-out Fleury, so that they do not lose Murray in the expansion draft. This is an unlikely scenario, however, since numerous reports have Fleury agree to waive and go to Vegas.
It would probably be cheaper to acquire him directly from Vegas. Why?
The Penguins would tack on the cost of finding another goalie that meets the expansion criteria in order to have a goalie available for the expansion draft. I do not believe that they have another goalie in the system that meets this criteria. That at bare minimum is an added cost to the acquisition price.
Vegas is also more than likely going to draft more goalies than they need. McPhee has stated that they are intent on drafting the highest asset value from most (if not all) teams. Treliving has also stated that he expects Vegas to select more goalies than they need. A surplus of goalies should mean that the price goes down a bit.