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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
I’m not going to be gracious and wish him well. Johnny ####ed us. He has a contract offer and sat on it. He gave us a lot of sweet words at the end of the season but, if it wasn’t about money, he should have told Tre and let us get on with building our team. We could have made moves at the draft but we were frozen…waiting on him. He can GTFO.
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I'm trying to find a silver lining in all this, like how the Islanders actually improved as a team after Tavares left them in free agency.
But not going to lie that this stings a lot. To be honest, Gaudreau was the only player who kept me watching Flames games and kept me excited as a fan, and for him to basically leave the Flames hanging until the last minute is going to leave a sour taste in many fans' mouths. I respect his own personal decision to likely go to a team closer to home, but it still would have been nice if he had made his intentions clearer with this team 1 year ago when contract extension talks began, and Flames management could have likely traded him then to his ideal team.
I'll probably go back to finding other hobbies or sports to watch next year. It's going to be difficult to watch them play, and living here in Edmonton will make it even tougher being a Flames fan when you constantly get the Oilers (and how McDavid is the best player ever) shoved in your face. The fact that the Flames also got knocked out of the playoffs by the Oilers, which seems to have been the camel that broke this team's back, stings even more.
We'll see what happens next year. Hey maybe, this team will end up being in a better place 5 years from now. And for God's sake, let's get a bunch of talented Canadian players who actually want to play here on this team.