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Originally Posted by chedder
What's not true? If he doesn't sign longterm this summer, all he has to do is play one more year at 9 million then go anywhere he wants. If he says no to an extension now it means he doesn't want to be here.
Next year we're just supposed to trust that he wants to sign with us when he can go straight to free agency?
And, no, I don't think he has any intention of signing a long term deal this summer whether he played well or not.
His last contract put the team over a barrel and the best way to get out from under it is to trade him. His value in a trade won't get better if we wait until next season.
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Are you kidding me? You have a vision of how this went in your head and it is all negative.
Why would be sign this summer when he is coming off a bad year? Makes absolutely no sense and does not mean anything when it comes to his future intentions.
You also assume he is racing to accept the $9M to walk to UFA. Do you remember the 2019 offseason? Likely the most prolific offseason when it came to RFA’s. With a rising cap and hope that it would only go up with a new TV deal on the horizon in 2 years many of those RFA’s did what Tkachuk did. Point, Boeser, Laine, Meier, McAvoy, Werenski, Fiala all signed bridge deals many with the poison pill QO.
Only Marner, Konecny, Connor, Rantanen went long term with their teams.
Flames have 2 years of control so there is not absolute need to sign him this summer. What player in their right mind would sign an extension after a bad year on the tail end of a pandemic before they see how what the next year holds? It doesn’t mean he wants out at all