It's fine to put your foot down, but the 1st for Monahan is obviously a league-wide high water mark unlikely to be repeated.
That does jive with the earlier rumors of disagreement of retention. NJ might be using a league wide average for retention not including Monahan trade, where flames want similar value to what they paid. IF this is the case, it's sunk cost fallacy related. Need to get over the fact that our horrible former GM made one of the stupidest moves ever in league history.
I am confident that if this is still the major stumbling point it can be overcome.
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