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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Why is it silly? Please explain to me just how that is supposed to work in a negotiation like this. Is Lewis Gross going to do his best Donal Trump impression in his next phone conversation with Treliving and say something like "The contract demand just got $1.0 m higher"?
I don't think this tournament is revealing anything about Gaudreau that we all did not already know. Treliving is not now going to be suddenly shocked into spending more money than he had prior to the WCH.
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I gave my larger thoughts in the post I just put up. What I will say is I disagree that this tournament can only tell us what we already know about JG.
I'm a big fan of JG, and I BELIEVE / HOPE that he will be one of the best players in the world, who will be a difference maker at the highest levels against the other best players in the World at the NHL level. He has yet to prove that in his short NHL career (nor should he be expected to have done so yet). IF (and a big if) JG is MVP of team NA and they win or make a serious impact on this tourney (assuming the hockey is as good as it looks like it will be) then all of a sudden what is a huge "unknown" or "maybe" in these negotiations has now become a proven fact for JGs camp with a tangible example to go with it.
None of the other comparible contracts have had that "maybe" erased before. I'm struggling to see how it wouldn't impact, because it would certainly up my confidence that JG could be worth crazy dough.