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Originally Posted by Flames_F.T.W
You may by right. Ovechkin and Landeskog are from overseas though and it's not like they can go play for their home team the way Gaudreau can in Philly. I don't buy into the narrative that Johnny wants to leave Calgary and play in Philly per se, but they're kinda different situations
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Ovechkin almost certainly had an agreement in place prior to the Seattle draft. They didn't want to sign him before because they would have had to protect him.
I know there was a lot of noise of Landeskog potentially leaving the team, but I wouldn't be surprised if that scenario was similar.