There's a lot of leaping to conclusions here.
Conroy would have checked with ownership about a whole range of retention scenarios so Markstrom and his contract wouldn't have been a last second thing.
It might be a deal that was worked out and then retention came up and the two teams couldn't agree (maybe Edwards set a return to high?) and then it came apart.
Devils could still be frustrated in that case.
I don't see Conroy waiting until he has the whole deal including retention figured out before he asked if he could retain on a non expiring contract. He's proven too smart so far to be that reckless.
I think we as fans have to be careful with reports that come out. Guessing they arel always 30% fact, and 70% filling in the blanks.
The filler may not be anywhere close to true.
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