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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Eye of the beholder. The Flames were the master of their own demise in this situation for not taking care of such a critical contract a year ago, and not pushing to get a final answer earlier than the final minutes.
It is just reckless and idiotic for your GM to handle such an asset so poorly and really speaks volumes that he is completely unfit to continue to manage the team. The player could have done many things differently leading up to this, but it all could have been mitigated, at least somewhat had the team not acted like a bush league minor league team.
A simple call: "He Johnny, if we don't hear back from you by the draft we are assuming you are out." "The door might still be open but we are going to explore other options and can't guarantee anything afterwards."
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I am not sure a contract wasn't offered a year ago. Johnnys camp were the ones that said they didn't want to discuss it. The Flames showed Johnny every step of this season they were committed to winning with the acquisitions they made during the season. End of the day Johnny knew he was not signing here again but didn't let the Flames know his true intentions. Going forward I believe the approach will be that players express their desire to remain here and put pen to paper or they get moved. If you go after a FA and their stipulation to sign is they have to be given extra term to do so then move on... that's why we had the Neal situation.