One thing I am struggling with is the comments that suggest that Treliving hard-balled Johnny during his last negotiations and forced him to settle for less than market value, and by extension, Gaudreau will exact his revenge this time around.
I don't remember this being the case back then. Gaudreau held out and missed camp (or some of it)? Gaudreau got a six-year deal while the team would have certainly been looking for 8 years. And the AAV was right there with similar contacts of the day, wasn't it? I can't recall the exact comparables, but wasn't he in line with MacKinnon, Barkov and others?
I always thought it was a fair deal for both sides. If I'm wrong fair enough, but I feel like we are just making stuff up to.justify our fears here.
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