I really think the only thing Conroy can do to bring Marner in is overpay. We have seen in the past how that is what it usually takes for the flames to get players in free agency. I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure that’s how they got Kadri, Coleman, Markstrom, Neal and Brouwer. While I’m sure all of them needed to like Calgary to sign… in the end, the flames paid them a little more and/or gave them the extra year or two in their contract that others would not.
That’s what I think it would take for Calgary to get Marner. The flames have the cap space to over-pay for him. In that sense, I could see them being in the mix. Conroy could pay him $15 million. The list of teams willing or capable of paying Marner that much is probably pretty small. Not saying that’s what Calgary should do. Just that they could if they really wanted to.
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