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Originally Posted by Since1984
Or he waits, Vegas makes a deal for a different defenseman and Conroy is stuck holding dick.
The price then goes down with less teams in the mix.
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I think there were more then a few teams in on Hanifin as a pure rental. Vegas got in the mix because it was a team he rumored to maybe sign long term with.
Because of that complication and how much the players side was pushing to chat with teams interested in signing long term, it steered the Flames to Vegas it appears (and Tampa and Fla) and seemingly that got Conroy sucked into dealing only with them, presumably because he thought he could get more for an extended Hanifin.
But NJ was in on him, and others and Flames had no obligation to explore places where he could extend, and could've traded him to 23 other teams, technically.