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The Devils have no reason to trade Holtz at this point. He just had a point-per-game season in his D+1 season in AHL and has three years of ELC remaining. And we have lots of young defensive options. Siegenthaler and Graves (then Hughes) figure to be their top-4 LD and one of Bahl, Okhotiuk, or Walsh as 3LD. Going forward, we also have Nemec, Mukhamadullin, Edwards, Vilen, Casey, etc.
Also, if Calgary is trading to win now, I would be surprised to see Hanifin on the market.
If Calgary included Wolf, they’d get our attention. But a Hanifin-Holtz swap doesn’t appear in either teams interest.