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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
There's 60 pages of commentary, so this will be nothing more than an agreement to what I'm sure someone else has said;
Most baffling decision by a person I've ever seen. Leaving $15M on the table is significant. I think it was Covid. I believe he and his wife are fearful of starting a family, something like Covid happening again, or another wave of Covid itself, and being caught in Canada and it being very difficult to get back to family or family up to them. I think this, because it's the closest thing I can come up with that is kind of logical. Still, $15M 
I agree it was unfair of Gaudreau and Gross to take it to the wire when they had to have known he wasn't staying in Canada. They didn't need to do that to establish a market value. |
Players have the right to do this, take it to the wire and have all options available. Gaudreau and Gross definitely did not want to be traded. But it was up to Tre to sense the room and pull the trigger last summer. By the trade deadline, it's too late, the Flames are in first place.