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Did you put McBain in the minors by accident? Pretty sure ARZ likes the guy a lot and would love to just keep him. He would get claimed on waivers 100%. If ARZ trades for Hanifin, I bet they would be sending Dumba back the other way or they get retention which would just cost like a 4th.

I looked at McBain’s stats they weren’t that great.

He's on pace for 25 goals and 44 pts which is pretty good for a 3C making ~1.6M. He may be great defensively as well but I don't know. What I do know is he's still just 23 so he could get better but the fact that he's 6'4", 218 lbs, and provides good secondary scoring, every team would put a waiver claim on him if they can fit him on their roster. I'm sure he's not even available. It cost a second for ARZ to acquire his rights from Minn, his value has only gone up since.

Why would Arizona need anyone to retain? The only reason they would send someone back is because they wouldn't want to lose them to waivers if they were over the roster limit.

I looked at their projected cap hit instead of their current (which isn't enough just yet but will be soon enough with a roster move).