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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
For Treliving and the Flames to not have set a self imposed deadline on this in advance of the real deadline in unforgivable. Gross incompetency that has left the franchise swinging in the wind.
I have been very critical of Treliving for the last 2-3 seasons and allowed him to win me back over somewhat with his moves last offseason. This has just completely undone all of that goodwill and exposed him once again as a sheep in wolfs clothing.
He's just out of his breadth as an NHL general manager.
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In hindsight it looks like Gross handled this a lot worse than Treliving did.
It's not like the Flames are getting much value back even if they have a firm deadline and can trade his rights. All that means is we know Gaudreau's status earlier and the Flames maybe get a 3rd back for his rights.
It looks like the mistake they may have made was not letting him talk to other teams to gauge his market, and let him do that while you still have the advantage of the 8th year. Oilers did that with Kane and it appears it worked in their favour.
But that's with the benefit of hindsight.
If they let him do that and he goes and signs for 7 x $12M somewhere else then I'd be blasting him for letting Gaudreau talk to teams and giving away his negotiating leverage.
But with hindsight we can see now that the market was soft and that maybe he stays here if he knows the best offer out there is 7 x $9.75 from Columbus. that the Flyers don't even come to the table, and that the Flames offer is the best by $15M.