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Originally Posted by transplant99
Agreed.
If he wanted to stay, he would be signed and home by now.....in fact it would have been done before the draft.
Pretty clear he is either wanting far more than the team is willing to go to on dollars and/or term, or he wants to at least see what is out there as a UFA regardless of the current offer.
It doesn't preclude him from returning if it's not to his liking on the open market, but its obvious to anyone not wearing flames goggles he at least is considering other options.
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Hope that's not the case.
My logic meter says they would have dealt him already if his demands were higher than the team was willing to pay.
The fact that they didn't in my mind means that although they're not done, they're in a range where it likely will get done.
Add in the fact that we had the rumblings that Coleman called and talked to Gaudreau and then locked into Calgary longterm, and I think it still points to a deal is in the works.
The only other thing I can think of was one suggested above, which is ownership blocking a trade for futures and wanting to take their chances. But even that seem unlikely to me.