Not the best news today about Johnny. I was really hoping the team would be able to keep him and trade Tkachuck. I'm not sure what direction the team goes now...
I'm not sure how you can build this current group into a contender when they just lost arguably their most important player. Rebuilding seems like the logical choice, but I can't see management wanting to do that.
Who knows, tough time to be a Flames fan, going to take a little to digest this. Went from contender status to potentially rebuild mode.
I'm not thrilled with Johnny holding out until the last couple hours. Johnny said everything that made him seem like he wanted to stay and remain a Flame so its tough to blame Treliving here, had he traded him last offseason people would have been calling for his head after the season he just put up, but ultimately would have gotten an actual return instead of losing him for nothing. This can not happen with Tkachuck.
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