Phaneuf @ 50% retained for Adam Fox
Solidifies our D core
For all of five minutes. Then he's lost to Vegas and the Flames are stuck with Brouwer too boot.
Senators only want to move Phaneuf
prior to the expansion draft so they can protect someone else.
If the Flames were at all interested in Phaneuf, it'd be
after the expansion draft, so they wouldn't lose him for nothing. Treliving's already said numerous times he's not interested in adding players right now because it'd screw up the protection lists.
Then there's the fact that Phaneuf's a left hand shot which means he'd being playing on the bottom pairing under Guluztan.
Pointless all around. There's no scenario in which Phaneuf to the Flames makes any sense.