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I obviously would love to keep Tkachuk a flame forever, even name him the captain, but I think he pulls a Johnny to play for his home town team or at least closer to his family out east, maybe he wants to go play with his brother, who knows.

Anyway, the Flames have to get him signed this summer to an extension or they need to put him on the trade block at the start of the season and get everything they can possibly get from a trade for him before the deadline, any team, the best package for the Flames, not for Mathew. It isn't like he is going to play with that team for long.

Does he have a NTC and a list of teams? I don't even know.

If we could have got the 2nd overall this past draft for him, if that is true, I don't get why the Flames didn't do it. Especially since Johnny was so up in the air at that point. That would have been my internal deadline for JG to sign here, if he didn't then I start making decisions about our team to not include him in the future, which means a retool/rebuild in my mind to try to replace assets that could leave us with nothing (ie what happened).

Mathew, don't be a ###### and either sign now or at least tell management you want out, be a man and stand up for what you want so you don't screw this team over.

Thank you.