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Originally Posted by butterfly
The rumor stated that the offer occurred before the draft. So, before anyone knew that Montreal was taking Slafkovsky instead of Wright.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but it will be an interesting thing to revisit in a few years.
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It doesn’t matter - if Montreal takes Wright, you take Slafkovsky. Or the American centre Arizona took. Or the defense man who’s now Gaudreau’s team mate.
Anything is a better result than this.
Instead, you have no Gaudreau and you’re staring down the barrel of the exact same situation with Tkachuk.
It’s lunacy. You have an offer on the table for 2OA. You go to Gaudreau and say “in or out”.
If he says out, you secure the top 2 pick.
95% of the board would’ve done that. Not slow walked him up to 4 hours before you couldn’t offer him 8 years.
What sort of fool does that.
Brad Treliving, that’s who.