I remember the interview with Matt Tkachuk's mom where she explained that he came home super pumped and excited in his first year as a Flame and couldn't stop talking about how "Gio does this" and "Gio does that".
That is the biggest loss in terms of having the role model, the player that other players want to play with, the player that other players look forward to seeing at the rink, the motivation to play hard for him when he was injured etc. This is bad for the moral of the players still remaining like when a popular person gets laid off at the company.
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