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Originally Posted by The Fonz
We've seen management teams set contract deadlines in the past, if a player wants to see the ice that season. Why not here? We were coming off of a horrible season that had a horrible start, had a brand new coaching staff that was preaching entirely new systems, and had to find a new RW for Gaudreau's line. All of that considered, it was not okay for Gaudreau to show up 18hrs prior to game #1.
Treliving had every reason to draw a line in the sand for when a contract needed to be signed, but he didn't.
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Did any of the teams with high profile RFAs do this? If thats easy than why don't teams simply just do that?