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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Gaudreau has the typical hockey player charisma in front of the camera (i.e. none). He's not going to pile up endorsements even if he played his home games inside a literal advertising business.
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This is a good point IMO — not in terms of endorsements, but that Johnny is a hockey player first and foremost. He wants to compete and he wants to win, and even if he doesn’t eat, sleep and breathe hockey as much as he used to, I don’t think you can discount the hockey aspect of this decision.
That’s not to say the Flames are necessarily at the top of that list — last year was a big step but there is still work to do — but at least Johnny knows who is part of the core and how things are trending. Hopefully Treliving has a pretty good plan in place to bring back Johnny and Matthew, and can sell that to both of them.
Actually, my worst nightmare would be seeing Johnny leave for NJ, and then Tkachuk following him next year (I think he’s close with the Hughes family). Gaudreau-Hughes-Tkachuk will never happen, right? Right?!?