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Originally Posted by Vinny01
The revisionist history on this is ridiculous.
The Flames negotiated with Tkachuk during a time the assumption was the cap would explode with the new TV deal. Matthews set a precedent signing a huge money deal with the Leafs for only 5 years.
Tkachuk was in line to ask for over $10M per on a 6-8 year deal that summer. This board completely $hit on him for his performance at $7M last year. Imagine if he made an additional 3-4M?
If the Flames didn’t want a bridge I don’t think they were getting more than 5 years of term with Matthew
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And again, even with the short deal the Flames were right at the cap. Sign a long $10M deal and there’s no Tanev or Markstrom and Gaudreau’s deal gets pretty tough