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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Its not so much what we could do with Johnny but we had the chance to unload Tkachuk and do a mini rebuild at the draft but we could not due to Johnny. There were also some other signings we could have planned for earlier had we known.
Or if Johnny had been clear with Philly, we could have worked with them to make space and get assets back.
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None of that is on Johnny. The Flames could have put forward their absolute final offer a bit before the draft and told Johnny they could only guarantee it would be on the table until a certain point (which isn't necessarily an ultimatum, but just a sensible line to draw in the sand).
For all we know they did exactly that and just didn't find any other compelling deals to make.
Johnny simply took all the rope that was given to him.