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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Keith Tkachuk "won" about $81,338,674 in career earnings...that's pretty significant right there. Signing discounts is no guarantee of anything from a team success perspective, and quite frankly when you're looking at the "recent" history of the the two teams the Tkachuk brothers play for...why would they consider signing for anything below absolute top market dollar? Neither team has shown they can build a team that can win anything. Even if the Tkachuk brothers did give a discount, these teams would likely go spend that extra money on players like Troy Brouwer or James Neal.
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Hot take. Tkachuk was "paid" for his service. He didn't "win" the money. His agent negotiated for it and got him "paid." That is very different from winning or being part of a winner. Tkachuk was always about Tkachuk, first and foremost. Getting paid was his thing. Winning? Not so much.
The problem I always saw with Tkachuk was he wasn't a winner. He was about personal success over team success, which always made me glad he wasn't on the Flames. I don't begrudge the guy for making his money, but I didn't like that he wasn't a big team player. Don't like guys like that. Tkachuk will be remembered more for counting the dollars he was paid than be remembered as a guy that performed for his team or when the chips were down. Not a great legacy IMO.