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Originally Posted by transplant99
No i have not seen anywhere that suggests the whole problem was with Gaufdreau.
I have seen, and entirely agree, he was a big PART of the problems this team experienced and i dont think that is even debatable.
So now its down, almost completely, to IF he is willing to extend and at what cost. If those two things are reasonable, then i doubt you find a single person that wishes him gone.
There are a multitude of things that have to be addressed with this club, he is but one.
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You haven't seen the countless remarks about his off ice issues regarding diet and drugs and partying and the on ice issues with him being a liability, being small, soft, weak, how the league has figured him out and etc? None of that has rung a bell?
Anyways, I didn't even say that people solely blame Gaudreau for all the team's problems. I said people need to stop blaming the star for a mostly team game. I always say star players in Canada get too much of the blame when losses occur and it should be the other way around. The team needs more star players to help out the existing stars. When the Iggy's and the Gaudreau's and soon to be the Tkachuk's take on so much of the post counts in this place, it's counter productive to where we want to get to. We need attract more stars and dress more elite players to become an elite team. But if everyone has Canada on their NTC/NMC, then we're stuck with only the draft and pray method or we get to sign some UFAs by overpaying them and slotting them way higher than they should be which just exacerbates the problem.