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Originally Posted by dino7c
Guy had no intention in signing here ever, used the Flames to get a big offer elsewhere
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This I don't believe at all.
What you are suggesting is that by turning down $84 million, Gaudreau and Gross cunningly drove the market all the way up to… $68 million?
It's not like he was going to sign anywhere for peanuts. There would have been plenty of offers over $9m AAV without ‘using’ the Flames or anybody else.
In fact, by saying that he wanted to be close to home, Gaudreau appears to have actually damaged his earning power. Scuttlebutt is that more than one GM was surprised he signed with Columbus, and would have made a competitive offer if he had only known Gaudreau was willing to talk to teams outside the NY-Philly area.
If this was all a master plan to get more money on the open market, it was a plan cooked up by a dimwit and executed by a bonehead. I'm not believing that.