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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Oh come on. Gaudreau didn't have a contract last summer and it was the most important piece of Flames news for like 5 months. Treliving going into the offseason without a contract is like letting a big name UFA go to free agency just because, except, it's probably even worse, because this particular UFA is in charge of the entire roster.
Like Friedman says, NO ONE ELSE DOES THIS, why do the Flames think this is a good idea?
Friedman confirms that there is an organizational hesitancy to be 'sellers' at the deadline, a problem which has plagued this organization going back to before Feaster. It's just fundamentally wrong headed and probably a significant reason the only constant for the Flames organization for the last 25 years has been incompetence.
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I'm not saying it isn't news. I don't even have a problem with people pointing out that the Flames way of handling it is at odds with how the rest of the league handles it.
At the end of the day though, Treliving is an adult, and he understands negotiations and business. He knows that there may still be question marks surrounding his time with the Flames and that ownership/senior management haven't yet come to a decision on what type of contract, if any, he has earned up to this point.
It is way too early to act like this is some giant screw up by the Flames and we are being hoisted back into the Feaster-O'reilly era of organizational embarrassment.