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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
To not get Gaudreau to a contract extension before his NTC kicked-in (to not have one worked out and agreed upon, ready to sign), was a mistake. Sure, Gaudreau's value was lower then than it is today, but Calgary got zero today. How much last off-season? A 1st? 1st + prospect? Imagine having another Pelletier, or another Coronato in the system.
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And all at the price of having a bubble team for a year, instead of the best season the franchise has had in nearly two decades.
I swear, Calgary seems to be full of fans who think the object of hockey is to collect all the trading cards, and the actual games are only a distraction.
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That's the issue for me. You are the GM of Calgary - a franchise that does not attract the top talent as UFAs. You can't risk losing your elite player for nothing when you have a hard time to find elite player willing to sign without a substantial overpay.
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Every player goes to UFA sooner or later. If GMs routinely tried to trade them all ahead of time, nobody would be buying and you would get nothing for them.
Some poster or other (it's been a long day) said you should never let players go to UFA, because even a kid playing NHL 22 knows that. Well, this isn't NHL 22. Your particular favourite team isn't the only one run by a human being, and the other 31 teams are not run by a poorly coded AI that is not only stupid, but stupid in predictable and exploitable ways. A game will pay to take your garbage off your hands if it's programmed to do so. Human beings won't, because they don't want garbage any more than you do.
People keep saying that Gaudreau wasn't worth keeping, and then turn around and say that some other team would have given up a big pile of assets to acquire him. The sheer illogic makes my head hurt.