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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
If we are going to read in to it, let’s lean in
How about the underlying ‘if Tre and the owners like what I have done over the past 6 to 7 years’?
It implies that Tre uses the owners as his negotiating tool, much like the used car salesman who has to go ask his manager
We know Tkachuk got a bridge deal with a QO of 9 million as a RFA after 1 career year of 77 points in 80 games. That’s how he got rewarded for something Tre and the owners presumably liked. Johnny has exceeded that point total in 3 of the past 6 years. And he is a UFA. And was the team’s leading scorer. Is there a case for anyone to be paid higher?
If we want to find things to read in to, that sentence is a powder keg
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By lean in you mean make up a laughable suggestion that Treliving uses the owners as a negotiation tactic? I am not sure if you are serious with that comment but lean towards yea because you love to take any shot at Treliving you can even if you are making up what you are fabricating the reason you are taking a shot.
Johnny knows who actually pays him his money and knows they ultimately have to be onboard with paying him his current and future contract. I don’t read it in to anything other than mentioning the stakeholders who really have the say on whether or not they want to engage in the negotiation Johnny and his camp are hoping for.
Tkachuk’s contract came in a different economic landscape and was very much in line with many other players in his position like Laine, Point, Boeser, Mieier, Werenski who signed bridge deals with high QO’s. Who was the last Flame to score 34 goals and 77pts in their 20/21 aged season? Tkachuk also did that on the second line playing the tougher even strength matchups that the top line couldn’t handle.
To me that sentence is a powder keg in your mind only