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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?
3 months wasnt enough time to get it settled so it wouldnt be something hanging over the club from day 1 of training camp and the season?
On a team where (my guess) the GM s on pretty thin ice as it is and needs not only a good season, but a good start, to likely retain his position....this would be the last thing he would want to have happening.
No...there is something else at play here with the most obvious being Johnny wants to at least dip his toe in the free agent waters unless a certain dollar/term is agreed too. I could be entirely wrong but we have seen this play out over and over again league wide.
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I think the Eichel stuff is/was holding everything back.