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Originally Posted by McG
Would adding 50% Markstrom retained be enough to change holtz and palat to mercer? Which is better, mercer or holtz and palat?
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Two things, not sure Ownership would do retention on 2 players prior to start of the season being you are only allowed 3 retention spots and the Flames have a number of UFAs again this year where retention would maximize value at the deadline (ie. Kuzmenko, Sharangovich (if can't be signed))
I think the Flames would be pretty happy to get Holtz and 10 with only retaining on 1 year of Mangiapane. Moving Palat for them is big since they have some big signings in the next couple seasons where that money could cause problems (Hughes, Nemec, Mercer). I just suspect that Palat may not waive his NMC to come to the Flames.