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Originally Posted by Bingo
So which way are you going?
They didn't understand?
They ignored it?
Neither make any sense.
Do you think Treliving just went rogue?
You just love the negative drama so much ...
The management group talked to Gaudreau through last summer and didn't get a deal done. They would have kept the ownership group apprised at all times on how those talks were going. Ultimately the ownership group would have signed off on the plan to let it ride, and they did.
There's nothing new today. There's no realization of having painted themselves into a corner without knowing it.
If anything the season went better than expected with winning a division and a playoff series, so if they were comfortable going for it last summer they are likely prepared for whatever happens now.
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This narrative also depends upon information we don’t have. I was on board with trading Johnny last summer but not at any return. If the market was not there for a trade then I don’t blame them for holding to see if something better came along and see if the team can have a good season, which happened. If Treliving gets a lower first and a b-prospect for him I would have been disappointed, even more so if Johnny puts up a MVP season in another city. Without knowing what the market looked like and the other options available to Treliving it is hard to criticize fairly. Further, I tend to understand the logic when Treliving does make a move. So, I am usually left in the spot of assuming that the offers weren’t great last year and it made more sense to walk this path than any other l.