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the Larry Brooks article mentioned above

https://nypost.com/2024/01/30/sports...be-wrong-move/

Calgary surely will conduct a bidding war that would likely yield a first-rounder plus at least one legitimate prospect and perhaps a young, NHL-ready player.

That would be a pill poisonous enough for the Rangers to swallow, but in order to incentive Flames GM Craig Conroy — operating at his first deadline after assuming the job last summer — to move quickly and abort the auction, Drury would have to overpay, probably considerably.

It could take the first-rounder and, say, Kaapo Kakko. Or maybe the Flames would prefer Will Cuylle or Brennan Othmann. Maybe they’d want a second-rounder in addition. And though the Rangers could accommodate Lindholm’s $4.85 million cap hit, doing so would leave little to address other weaknesses so the cost would be even higher in order to get Calgary to retain 40 or 50 percent of the contract.

For a rental.

But an overpay for Lindholm — which by definition they would be obligated to do in order to obtain the veteran who, by the way, is 9-32-41 in 49 games with two goals in his last 25 games, and welcome to the party! — would be a historically Rangerish move.