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Originally Posted by VilleN
Exactly. I feel like no one is acknowledging this. What would we have gotten for Johnny at the beginning of last year? He's got one season left on his contract, he just came off 2 down years and has not won anything of significance in this league yet. 1 year of an elite Johnny Gaudreau performance is probably more valuable than anything you could've gotten for him at that time.
So, for those who are saying Treliving bungled this, what would you have done?
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People are forgetting that back then Treliving wouldn't have been trading 110 point Johnny. He was trading a guy who scored at a 68 and 71 point pace the previous two seasons. Who some were saying was not a PO performer, and the league had figured out. Who was just about to have a 3 team LNTC kick in so the acquiring team would be limited in that asset as well. What kind of return do you get for that guy? Who was interested in that trade. Treliving would have roasted for the return (especially if Johnny had the season he just had but with another team).
Plus Johnny was obviously still telling Treliving he was prepared to listen to deals to stay in Calgary at the very least. If he was set on going east, that would have changed things.