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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Is this a game where you get to assume but I don't? Trelving put himself and the Flames in this situation. Not Johnny Gaudreau. That's a fact.
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It's a fact is it?
How do you know that?
Is it not entirely possible that ownership insisted that BT try and re-sign him when BT wanted to possibly trade him?
Is it not possible that JG assured his teammates and/or management he wanted to return but did not really have that inclination?
I mean this thing should have been dealt with last summer IMO and if he wasnt signing...then see ya.
Something prevented/handcuffed them from accomplishing that. I'm going to assume it wasn't management doing it to themselves, so it was another force at play. I think that is a reasonable/logical position...no?
Either way, yes its a bad look...for every single entity involved other than the Blue Jackets. They are the only winners in all of this.
Im not defending BT as a GM here as I think its time for a change and a fresh approach among the braintrust, but in this particular case I cant lay the blame at his feet when the player was literally negotiating to the last day and then turns around and leaves for 15 million dollars less.