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Originally Posted by nik-
This isn't on Gaudreau at all, it's on blindness by management.
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Management decided that the last year of Gaudreau on the ice was worth more than whatever they could have traded him for last summer. This is not blindness.
If the Flames were blind to keep Gaudreau for one last season, knowing he would leave, then any other team would have been even more blind to trade good assets to acquire him. At least the Flames can say they got eight seasons of one of the most entertaining players in the league, at no other cost than a 4th-round pick plus salary. Whoever traded for him would have given up more to get less.