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Originally Posted by GioforPM
You say this like Jagr wasn’t the decision maker in that regard. Players hate camp. Jagr decided to skip it.
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I will need a citation on this - Treliving had a bunch of college free agents like Foo who he thought might take a spot. Poirier/Klimchuk would have still been in the mix as well.
It was clear from his actions at the time, Treliving wanted one of the kids to seize a top-9 role.
They didn’t, we signed Jagr. He even said at his press conference that he wasn’t going to he ready right away, that he needed time to get in shape.
That’s not something you say if “skipping camp” was the reason you didn’t sign until October.
I don’t know why Jagr wouldn’t have just come to some sort of understanding about his training camp regimen, Rather than skip it entirely.
Everyone knew he was 45 - it would’ve been entirely reasonable to say “Jags is getting every other day off because he’s ####in Jags, anyone got a problem with that? No? Good.”