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Originally Posted by blankall
You've got to look at it as:
1. Tkachuk with huge and/or non-long-term contract; or
2. All the assets we'd get from a Tkachuk trade, plus a potentially comparable player on a better contract.
Listen, I'm attached to this team too, and I would love it if we could just try again with almost the same roster (plus some internal improvement). The reality is that may not be feasible. Tkachuk may try to either bend the team over a barrel or just straight up refuse to sign long-term.
All I'm saying is that there are other options for the Flames, and that it's much easier to replace, or even potentially improve upon, what Tkachuk brings.
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You’re just moving the goal posts now. You said Tkachuk would be somewhat easy to replace by dipping into the free agent pool. You even cited Forsberg as an example where they would come out ahead which is just silly.
You’re worried about Tkachuk demanding a ton of money, but aren’t concerned about what it would cost to lure a top free agent to Calgary? You could offer Forsberg 10 per year and he probably still isn’t signing here.
Last season Tkachuk was a top 10 player in the world. When you have a player like that you do everything you can to sign them long term.
I understand Tkachuk may want to leave and if that happens then you need to do what you need to do, but let’s not pretend like that’s a positive outcome for the Flames or that his contributions will be easy to replace.