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Originally Posted by SutterBrother
Unless the offers are exceptional (like Lindholm level), there is zero reason to make a deal now. You wait until the deadline and take the best available offer leveraging the teams against one another, as well as your 3 retentions for salary.
GMs of contending teams + Edm are going to pucker as the reach those last hours to improve their squads... especially as they look at the moves other teams are making.
That's a recipe for a haul, and it's not going to lessen between now and the deadline.
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This is exactly it. There is substantial runway to the trade deadline, so you aren't getting GMs going all in yet. They are still holding back trying to see if they can reduce the cost. I think that is why Fitzgerald tried to make some sort of artificial deadline last week by saying there is a time limit on the offer. Obviously Conroy didn't blink and here we are. Dollars to donuts that Fitzgerald calls back again. He may wait a bit closer to the deadline to sweat Conroy a bit, but he will be back.