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Originally Posted by GioforPM
All true. But there’s no guarantee for him that his preferred team wants him, especially after a couple of relatively lean years. And they might decide to make him a crummy offer since he’s expressed his wishes.
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I assume you mean his preferred team would make the flames a crummy offer (not Gaudreau himself) since he would be under contract with the flames still. That’s the flames problem though at that point… we’ve seen in the past how NMC/NTC limit the returns on players that have asked for a trade. Teams just accept it and make the trades anyways. I cannot recall any time when a player has publicly asked to be traded and not be moved within a year of the request. So he would definitely get moved if he made that request.
Anyways, If his preferred team does not want him at that point, they would likely not want him if he was a free agent at that point either. This scenario still allows Gaudreau to max his salary and contract while still having the flexibility to ask for a trade to another team (virtually of his choosing) during his final years in the league.
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