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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
The only thing I’d counter to this is why not take Holtz and work on a deal for a young center with him as a main piece? Wolf is over ripe at this point, which isn’t the biggest deal right now, but that situation will need to be decided on sooner than later and outside of Holtz, adding an additional 3 futures including an unprotected 1st could have been huge. Sounds like Conroy is being creative though so I’m sure something will happen here.
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I mean you could do that but I have been saying the Flames have wanted Mercer well before this dialogue ever started. The problem with taking Holtz instead with other assets is where do you find another young C with the pedigree of Mercer that a team will make available? Where are you playing Holtz right now? He needs to play in a top 6 to really develop his skills which means taking Pospisil off the Kadri line. I think Conroy is playing it right, they can either include the piece you want or they can go pound sand. Make them sweat it out, there is time.