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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Were willing to retain if Toronto would meet their price, which they didn't. They still didn't get the deal done. The Flames have not retained any amount of significance to make a deal happen. Lets see the team make a deal with retention of significance before suggesting they will do so or eat significant salary to make deals or take on bad contracts for draft picks because they really haven't in the past. They've been the opposite in this regard. They should be doing this, but they've yet to pop that cherry and use the retention strategy with any meaning.
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I think they've set a price for retaining and it has to be met.
Toronto certainly lacks many of the key assets to make that happen and get the player.
I don't think you walk the "we retained all three retention slots" comment after the Zadorov trade if ownership hasn't ok'd the use of retention for better returns.
Now did they set the value high enough to never use them? Or did they set them just higher than Toronto was willing to spend. That's what we're going to find out I guess.