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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The thing is that he was surprised in the end. It appears he simply read the room wrong and thought it was going to happen and was just a matter of getting the numbers to work. I feel any anger should be directed at the man that miscalculated not the player that did what all players in his situation do which is do what's best for them.
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I'm not going to defend Tre, but it does appear to me that Gaudreau was stringing them along and, despite engaging in week-long negotiations, never had any intentions of staying in Calgary. There's plenty of blame to go around and the Flames better learn from this, but heaping all of the blame on Tre is not fair either. Gaudreau and his camp simply did not negotiate in good faith if he was happy to give up $15m without even going home.