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Originally Posted by Fire
It would have been a weird move for him to go back for year 3 and not decide to go back for year 4. I think the risk of this was high and already lowered his trade value significantly before the Flames traded him, but this would pretty much make it non-existent.
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Gaudreau did exactly that (went back for year 3 and not year 4) and the Flames tried to sign him after year 2.
The Canes probably assumed he didn’t want to play in Canada and they had a good shot to sign him being on the east coast