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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
"- he heard this all from multiple sources"
This is not some secret. When a team has retained in one trade in the history of the club since this CBA went into being that is an operational constraint made because of a business decision. If retention was an option, you can bet Treliving would have exploited it. Unless Conroy has changed the thinking of the bean counters the same constraints are going to hold. It seems that this remains an expectation based on the mechanism not being used and retention being brought up as an issue in possible trades multiple times.
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I think it's fair to say that it's a debate until we see one used.
But the two cases this year aren't proof that they won't be used.
And I'm not sure Conroy discussing retention slots on three different occasions fits with the narrative that he's not allowed to use them.