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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Threaten to trade the top offensive player on a Division leader a week before the the TD. That certainly takes ... something, but I don't think "balls" is the word you are looking for.
Why? Why would Gaudreau sign a contract months ahead of his first qualification for UFA? I think it is pretty naive of you to imagine that this was ever an actual option.
Oh, definitely. This forum is littered with similar such opinions from people who think they know better than the GM, who they imagine to be a bumbling incompetent fool. Not that these ideas are remotely reflective of reality, where team managers and agents deal with real people, real owners, and real market forces.
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Except that if he doesn’t re-sign then yes 110% it (obviously…) would have been the correct move purely from an asset management perspective which I believe is Trelivings job. It was a valid option and something to consider doing, it’s basically saying you give up on this season to secure a future rather than what we have now. Which is 1 week away from toiling in mediocrity for the next 5 years before inevitably being forced into rebuild. Like this isn’t complicated stuff.
Johnny would have likely re-signed because he would have wanted a shot at the cup in a division leading team. That’s the carrot, otherwise later man best of luck wherever we send you. It was an option, not a great one, but that’s what Treliving did by not signing him last summer.
Also lastly, yes many people on this forum have shown they would do better (not me) than Treliving very obviously in certain situations and for certain decisions. I’ll give you one hint, the decision to roll with the coaches he did for as long as he did when you had countless people here suggesting to go get a seasoned veteran coach. It was obvious after Peters what kind of coach the team needed so to go with Ward was burning another season. There’s been lots of times where many posters have good ideas. And I’m not saying Treliving is always wrong either. At the time I thought the Toffoli trade was a good one. Not sure now but too early to tell likely. Anyway my point is that yes sometimes people on here have good ideas and to dismiss them because of appeal to authority is myopic, condescending, arrogant and honestly just straight up wrong haha.