Darren Haynes explores the impact Gaudreau's performance in the World Cup could have on ongoing negotiations:
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For example, should Gaudreau score three times tonight, including dangling around Roman Josi and going bar-down in a video clip that instantly goes viral, that's not going to hurt his cause. Same thing if he leads Team North America to the finals.
But should his impact be minimal. Should he be stifled by the top D pairings he'll see in the round-robin games against Finland, Russia and Sweden, that's not going to help his cause. If he's neutralized throughout the tournament, that could be construed by the Flames as a continuation of the difficulties he had generating offence when up against tough match-ups on the road last year.
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Might he use this opportunity to establish himself as one of the world's elite players? For sure it could happen. Similarly, perhaps his performance ends up underwhelming. Small sampling or not, we would be naive to think an extreme performance one way or another wouldn't move the needle a little bit in terms of contract talks. Chalk it up as a recency bias.
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