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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Because Murray would balk at retaining on Markstrom but sign off on retaining on Tanev because… reasons.
He does seem like a penny pincher, what with the team having free reign to spend to the cap, buyout players, and pay coaches not to coach for them.
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Well retaining on Tanev only affects you the rest of this season.
Retaining on Markstrom is factored in for 2 seasons. Not only a consideration dollar-wise, but you can only retain on 3 contracts at once, so a factor at least in the grand plan for a couple years.
All that said, if it was me I'd be letting other GMs know I'm willing to retain on Markstrom anyway, to see if that would bring us offers from other teams tight to the cap. Worst case you don't get a good enough offer now and you trade him in the summer instead, which is where we're at anyway.