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Originally Posted by Tyler
I laugh at the people criticizing him on the Gio deal.
That is a unique situation where your hands are really tied as a GM. Can you honestly imagine if we didnt' re-sign him to a big extension? We'd be the joke of the league
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What's the worst that would've happened? Gio comes into 2015/16 without an extension, plays amazing and prices himself out of Calgary? In that case we trade him for a bounty of riches. Or maybe he's insulted because we didn't sign him soon enough? Again, trade him for a bounty of riches. Another thing to consider is that if he played badly with no contract, he would be much more tradeable than he is right now.
By not signing him we could've avoided what was truly the worst case scenario, which was him regressing and the contract becoming an albatross. I'm not ready to say that is definitely going to be the case but sometimes when you try to eliminate all risk it can blow up in your face even worse.