Players say they're happy for their teammates the same way a brides single friends say they're happy for her. You're dreaming if professional athletes across all sports don't know exactly how much their teammates and others across the league get paid. Disputes over who gets paid what, hell even who gets more credit, have broken up teams across all leagues and time, it's natural and human. There's a spittin chiclets podcast with Gaudreau and Kevin Hayes that went up the summer after he signed his deal with the Flames where Johnny made a weird comment about his contract, in the vein of not being completely happy with it and what guys were making even a year later. If the Flames sold him a bill of goods that there was a hard Gio cap only to sign a guy that had 22 fewer points than you the year before to more it would irk anyone. Combine that with what his buddy Hayes and all these other RFA's got this summer. All we can do is speculate but something non-physical is clearly wrong with him and that's as good an explanation as anything.
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