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Originally Posted by atb
That’s fair, but if Gaudreau was willing to do a contract last summer and the Flames weren’t willing to go to the dollars/term, that’s a failure of management not understanding why Johnny had down years or what his potential upside might be with a full season of Sutter coaching. Obviously a lot of us didn’t see this season coming, and a long term contract might have been panned by the fan base at the time, but it’s looking like BT gambled and lost.
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We have already been over this, but "potential" for a 27-year-old player is not at all easy to pin down. Yes, not extending Gaudreau was a risk, but so was signing him ahead of this year. There was no predicting what did happen. And besides, had Gaudreau signed in the summer it seems realistically possible that he would not have had a career year, since there seems to be a pretty common correlation between a player's contract status and performance.
In the end, no. This was not a "failure." Yes, it was a gamble, but it was a gamble either way.
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