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Originally Posted by Knightslayer
Because the Flames will still be the Calgary Flames. Not sure how not signing two guys who are about to be UFA is on the GM.
That's pretty much on the ownership. If they want those two players bad enough they'll have to pay. Maybe even if they do wanna pay, the players don't wanna stay. Fail to see why the GM would get fired for that. He can't force them to stay and he can't pay them what they want without ownership approval.
Unless you mean if they don't sign AND Treliving doesn't maximize assets for them then you may have a point.
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I was implying that both walk for nothing therefore we lose both for nothing and that is entirely on Treliving. His job is long term building of this franchise and if he lets his top 2 players walk because he didn’t want to pay them or they don’t want to stay he should have been ahead of that.
Treliving has put himself in the position to lose Johnny for nothing this summer. Personally I wanted the deal done prior to his NTC kicking in but he allowed the player get the leverage. He also signed Tkachuk to a contract that will allow him to potentially walk for nothing in a year. All the leverage belongs to Tkachuk who we know will use it.
How you can’t see that being on the GM I do not understand?