Vatrano isn't for sale, sure as hell not for a cap dump and a third.

You have any idea how bad a look it is for a GM to ship out his very first signing, whom he gave term to, after ~20 games? Let alone for the spare parts offer you made? No UFA would ever sign here again so long as he was the GM.

I have a cut-and-paste to this effect which I alter to fit the circumstances, but why bother when you've said it all?

Take McGinn out of the deal and the Hawks accept. If you want Hawks to take on that $2.75m cap hit for the next two seasons, add that 2023 2nd to the deal.

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