Flames should offer up #13 and encourage a new young kid to wear it. Borderline force it on some unknown rookie or something.
I don’t really care if he gets cheered, booed, whatever, he is a clown and his handling of this is the antithesis of professional and totally classless. You don’t go about the way he did, just gutless.
Meanwhile it 10000000000% makes sense now, that whole scene with Tkachuk playing the Leafs, getting into that scrum with the puck flip and Gaudreau pretending to have no clue what was going on and skating off and not standing up for his teammate, regardless of what happened. Sutter tried to install that culture but to a person like Johnny it’s probably just so foreign, the concept of a team. No wonder Tkachuk was so pissed. He at least gets what a team is about. God, I hope the Flames don’t forget how this went down and get smarter with Tkachuks negotiation which I’m sure will be 110% strictly business.
That’s what the NHL is. 110% strictly business. No longer about anything else that actually matters.
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