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Insanely easy to pass for the Isles. You're offering them the worse half of a goalie swap and asking them to retain $550K on a player that they kept buried last year for only $350K, and all you're offering them is two prospects from the back end of your top 15. Diliberatore profiles as a guy whose ceiling is a bottom pair LD, which puts him behind the other LDs in the Isles system currently; and Hallum is at least 3-4 years away from being a middle-6 guy.
The 4th covers the retention, sure, but again: the Isles have no need to move either of these guys. They're under the cap with a 23 man roster even with Varlamov being a $5M backup goalie; and Panik's $1.375M had no problem being buried in Bridgeport last year and will do so again this year for that $350K penalty(not to mention he *is* useful & cheap depth if someone gets hurt). If you're going to ask a team to give up something they really don't need to give up, you're going to have to overpay. A pair of lower prospects isn't an overpay.