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Originally Posted by dissentowner
If you are not prepared to pay Tkachuk what the market is you trade him, you don't just sit him the whole year. That doesn't help anyone.
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You are assuming (a) he's asking market and (b) the market is what you think it is.
IMO Treliving has been pretty consistent with RFA market prices. I've never thought he got a steal, but I've thought he got good market prices for his stars. He has managed to get in early on some guys like Gaudreau and Lindholm, before their biggest years. But while people said "that's a pretty good deal" for Lindholm, for example, no one said Lindy got jobbed. So I have a fair degree of confidence that he's not being unrealistic with Tkachuk.
On the other hand, Tkachuk may be getting advice from his dad, who was a nasty contract negotiator (and renegotiator).