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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Treliving in my opinion screwed up substantially by forcing Gaudreau to stick with the Gio cap and therefore only get a 6 year deal. The talk was all Treliving had to do to get the 8 years was match the Tarasenko deal and for a measly $750k per the Flames have Gaudreau cost controlled for another 2 years.
Perhaps Treliving gets the cap number right where he wants it but is forced to take a 2 year deal. In 2 years the Flames would have to sign Tkachuk, Bennett and a number 1 goalie. There are not a lot of deals with only 2 years left outside those 3 players. Losing one of Bennett or Tkachuk is a possibility at that time.
If Treliving can get him on a 3 year deal would have Bennett, Brodie, Hamonic, Stone, Brouwer, Frolik all expiring. Let the last 3 walk and use that much net to sign the first 3.
Now I am also a believer that Stone and or Frolik will be moved before their court tracts expire to recoup a 2nd rounder or 2 that are gone. If something happens and those games layers regress and become unmovable like Brouwer the Flames could be squeezed right for cap space at a time they need to re-sign their youngest building blocks.
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When Treliving has to negotiate Bennett and Tkachuk in two years, he's going to be able to point to Gio, Johnny and Monahan as players who took less than $7M.
Bennett and Tkachuk have to be the two best players on the team to get north of $7M on their next deals. Which is great for us if that happens, but I don't see either being able to do enough to say they deserve more than Johnny or Gio.
Treliving may have given up two years of control on Johnny, but he also protected his cap from our next wave of contracts.