REPORT: Blockbuster Trade Between Devils And Flames Leaked By Insider

From The Fourth Period:

Separate sources confirmed the Devils would send forward Alexander Holtz back in a trade with between $2 million and $3 million of Markstrom's of annual cap hit retained. Markstrom is being paid $8 million in actual salary this season, and $6 million in each of the next two seasons, which includes a $2.5 million lump sum bonus payment each year. In order to make this move work, the two teams are going to have to figure out how to even out the dollars in some fashion.

According to another source, Devils netminder Vitek Vanecek was not going back to Calgary in the initial trade. The Flames plan on moving forward with Dustin Wolf and Dan Vladar between the pipes if Markstrom is moved.

With the expectation that the Devils and Flames revisit talks and try to make things work ahead of the deadline, Fitzgerald has been evaluating other options.

«It's up to Calgary, what they want to do. That's what it comes down to," he told Sportsnet's Eric Francis earlier this week when asked about the possibility of a trade. "I don't control it."

«Whatever direction they want to go, and what they want to do, I'm not going to force anything," he said in that same interview with Francis.

«I'm not going to go up and meet and ask for a trade either. I'm here to play, I'm enjoying every day and we've got a great group.»