He didn’t ask did a trade, but he phoned Brad and said I am not singing term but my agent will give you a list team of teams I sign with. Anyone that looks at that situation knows that’s a trade request. How else would he sign with them?
Arbitration was elected to give the team time to trade him. That did nothing to make the situation negative.
Tkachuk was never going to sign long term. It was 3 or 5 years that started in the 9s
They just won 50 games and had career years, but sure the franchise was falling apart. The only issues he has had was coaching. It was never going to work with Sutter. You can blame Edwards for that.
He set himself up to do this. He’s even talked about Brad a ton.
People crap on the Flames enough, we don’t need to create fan fiction stories as to why he left.
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