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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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Yeah, the Flames MO would be taking back Vanacek but I am guessing they'd only do that if they can dump Vladar. We will see but I'd be shocked if Markstrom goes out with retention although I am not sure Treliving was ever in a spot to really gain much from retaining on a contract though and it has become much valuable with the flat cap.