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Originally Posted by Fourteen FTW
No idea how we are going to manage 11m a year for Johnny…
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It’s on Treliving now to make it work. It’ll be the toughest summer of his entire career. I was quite disappointed when Mangiapane was bridged because he was a definitely going to be a 30 goal scorer one day that we could’ve had signed long term for cheap. That would have helped so much for this summer’s inevitable cap crunch.
Had I been in Treliving’s shoes though, I would’ve done everything I could to sign Gaudreau and/or Tkachuk last summer. Their performances in the final quarter of the season was astounding. It was very likely that the chemistry would carry over to the next season and it has. Now with Gaudreau on pace for 90+ points though and entering the UFA market, he has all the leverage now and Treliving has none. He’s going to have to pay market price and that’ll mean you even less money to work with.
For me, I think I’m just more disappointed that the we couldn’t take advantage of Johnny’s cheap contract years. He was stuck with all kinds of deadweight when we had the pieces to an elite line for years. Now you have Tkachuk, Mangiapane, Kylington and Johnny to re-sign and they’re all killing it this season. I don’t want to see the Flames being stuck once again as a shallow one line team that can’t ever get over the hump because they have no depth.