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Originally Posted by Locke
I largely agree, but if we get screwed by a soft market this is going to suck.
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If anything this is my worry too.
Hayes at 50% retained only returning a 6th scares me.
But then the Dubois and Newhook returns weren't terrible, and Dubois should be a better comparable to a Hanifin or Lindholm like deal.
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Originally Posted by 868904
But it is reported that Conroy is getting lowballed.
And Briere didn't help the situation by giving the Blues a legit and big second line centre with a reasonable cap hit for next to nothing.
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That has nothing to do with him being a rookie though.
If anything it's the market and how cap crunched teams are that are causing the soft offers. That and not being proactive last deadline to move a couple of these guys when the market was hot was also a mistake, because now GMs see 7 ufas and know the Flames are in a tough spot.
But it's also why retention should be a tool the Flames are heavily leveraging here, they need to open their market up to as many teams as possible including those cap crunched teams.