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The 1st is what it would cost for Detroit to take Komarov and Hickey off your books. They are both pure cap dumps to us, we have no roster spots open for them and they would have to be buried in Grand Rapids.
Retaining 7.5 millions over two years on Tarasenko would be very expensive. We already have one of the retention slots taken with Pánik the next two years and we have 6 players on expiring contracts that we may want to trade at the deadline and we need the remaining two retention slots ourselves. I would not retain for two years unless I was offered two 1sts.
Detroit declines unless the return is three 1st round picks.
The limitation on the number of concurrent retentions that are allowed is the limiting factor here.
With one of the three slots already taken and with us having 6 expiring contracts that we may have to trade we don't want to give away one of the remaining two slots unless it's for a massive overpayment.