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Originally Posted by transplant99
I hope you're right and JG just doesnt walk...but with the bolded.....why would it not be done already if its close?
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It could be close, but perhaps the player wants 8 years and the club wants 5. Or maybe he wants a full NTC and Treliving isn't willing to offer it. Maybe the Flames wanted to see how a potential acquisition of Eichel would affect the team's salary cap structure before determining the length and dollar figure the team could offer.
We may not understand all of Treliving's reasons for the decisions he makes, but he's not dumb. He knew when the NTC would kick in and how that would affect Gaudreau's trade value. There must have been some reason that he didn't feel it was necessary to trade Gaudreau before then. Maybe he knows something about the negotiations that we don't.
Besides that, managing a team isn't just about individual players' salary negotiations. A team under a salary cap has a lot of moving parts, and what's happening with one can affect what you can do with the others. Treliving certainly knows much more about behind the scenes stuff and the big picture than we do. It's easy to be an armchair GM, being the real thing is something entirely different.