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Originally Posted by TOfan
Bit of a change of topic but something I’ve been mulling over the past few days.
Adding without selling.
I’ll be curious to see if the Flames will be able to help broker some deals by way of acting as a third party ‘bank’. Can the Flames add picks by way of being a third party retention source. Initially I thought the Flames would retain on Mantha and Kuzmenko but one is certainly off the board and the other seems very unlikely.
Just off the top of my head, if Hall is getting traded, is there opportunity for the Flames to scoop a pick? I think these might be the only deals we see from the Flames this deadline. None of their own UFA’s seem to be all that enticing got other teams and I think this recent talk of Andersson being traded before the TDL is wishful thinking.
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Posters have been talking about weaponizing their cap space and they haven't really done it yet on any third party deal.
If Hall is traded, Chicago can easily retain, although they have only one space left this year. Calgary has 2 spaces left this year and next (Markstrom).