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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The fanbase turned on Gaudreau just as fast and he's accomplished a lot more than Tkachuk. It seems like too many fans have Tkachuk on a pedestal but he's no more special than other players. Remember he's the one that wanted the bridge contract to get to free agency quicker. Hard to give a guy the captaincy when his main focus appears to be cashing in at free agency as soon as possible.
The Flames have been mediocre for decades and since Treliving has taken over have had one season where they were a comfortable playoff team. The rest of the time they have been a fringe team and getting worse year after year. I don't know about you but I would gladly take a few painful seasons of rebuild over the current painful seasons of mediocrity. Outside of Peters first season, the team hasn't been fun to watch in pretty well every season post-Hartley. I'm not sure why any fan would want to sign on for a continuation of what we have seen this season and make no mistake this team may not be rebuilding but they are no better than a rebuilding Ottawa team so if the team is going to be bad they may as well do things right.
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This could well be true (and I tend to believe it is), but there is the possibility he would have been willing to sign a LT deal.
Flames were painted into a corner and had zero additional money with which to sign him to anything more than they did. That was the summer in which Treliving supposedly had a deal for Frolik in his hip pocket that he would able to cash in on at any time.
Turns out he didn't and Frolik wasn't dealt until later in the year.
Maybe Tkachuk would never have gone long term but seems the bridge deal was the only option Flames had.