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Originally Posted by Bonded
I see what you keep repeating but that’s not how I read it but no need to muck up this thread. There’s about a zero percent chance the Flames will retain on Markstrom and Mangiapane in a single trade before the draft.
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No, but there's a non-zero chance they might want to retain on some combination of two players in two separate trades.
The thing is, ‘retention slots’ is media talk. There are no retention slots as such. Sports reporters are not a numerate bunch on average. They can count to three easily enough, but you can't expect them to grasp accounting procedures; so they talk about ‘slots’ to simplify matters.
‘Salary attributable’ is a clear enough phrase, and on any trade made after the close of the regular season, the salary attributable to retention for that particular season is zero.