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Originally Posted by bax
This would be a disaster. How does Treliving justify to owners and fans that one of our very best players will miss an entire year during our prime to contend because he needs to invent an imaginary hard deadline?
You have to work with players, it's a two way street. This would just create animosity now and into the future.
Even Tkachuk at 85% is better than most players on the team.
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Because (a) the contractual demands were too high; (b) the cap space wouldn't allow the demands; and (c) the benefits of having the player diminish, probably exponentially, the longer the holdout goes. The deadline cited wouldn't be the one I'd use, but there has to be some line, and IMO it's not December.
It's also disaster to overpay, possibly moving good players to make it work cap-wise, and then get a mediocre performance for that salary.