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Originally Posted by Toonage
LeBrun disputes Markstrom was ever asked to waive NTC
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/countdown-to-...-ntc-1.2075829
"What was not presented to Jacob Markstrom was this question, 'Would you waive to go to New Jersey?' And so that tells you a couple things," LeBrun explained on Insider Trading. "One, that those trade conversations didn't escalate to the point where it got to that juncture. It also asks a couple of other questions, which is why didn't it? And one of things we found out on this day was that there seems to be a discrepancy between the two teams about how much money either team should be paying Jacob Markstrom, which is to say that the Devils would want Calgary to retain some of the salary left on Markstrom's contract in any trade.
"He's got two and half years left on his deal at $6 million a year, so you can see why the Flames aren't too interested in that or at least if they were going to contemplate that, can the two teams agree and what kind of price that would cost. So, who knows if this thing is dead or not between the two teams, but certainly the Devils still need to upgrade their goaltending position." |
Great example of why we shouldn't just run with Friedman/Seravelli opinions as 100% fleshed out fact.
This suggests some of their "knowns" weren't known.