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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Maybe something to take with a grain of salt because it's not 100% a confirmed source but I heard this today (I'll let Dissentowner or Sec214 confirm or deny if they have better info)
Flames are in a bit of a weird spot with Hanifin.
There are teams are willing to pay close to the asking price for Hanifin but only if he will extend. The is issue is generally he only wants to extend in a couple places (Calgary, Boston, Florida, one other unknown place) and as of right now those teams aren't the teams with the best offer on the table.
Those teams are interested in the player but don't really want to step up to pay the price. Boston and Florida don't have their 2024 1sts, which the Flames don't love as they'd prefer the picks be sooner. And those teams also don't have deep prospect pools, and aren't willing to move top prospects they do have (Poitras, Lundell, Samoskevich).
Which has reopened the door to the Flames signing him since there is still interest from
both sides in him re-signing, or hoping a team would be willing to pay the premium without a contract being agreed upon at the time of the trade.
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This sounds like a more detailed report of the things I have heard as well, that Hanifin has never wanted out and was always open to being here. As for the teams he will extend with I never had that info so I never talked about that but I can see your list being accurate, there might be a few more contenders in there too. I can definitely say that ever since Conroy got the gig there have been a lot of lowball offers on players that might be available. Whether that is the market or just other GM's testing the new guy I can't say. Personally, I would rather extend Hanifin than have out new GM set a bad precedent of taking poor offers for assets.