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Originally Posted by dino7c
Three days later after all the backlash...Yay lol
The guy totally strung the Flames along for leverage...he seems surprised people are asking him about Calgary at all.
Bottom like though winning is not at the top of his list so we are probably better off long term
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Two things:
1) It’s not stringing somebody along for leverage when you leave $15M on the table by going, take a lower AAV with your new team, and announce before you leave for UFA that you left for family reasons and not money.
If anything doing what he did took away all of his leverage.
2) Somebody close to the family that I had a conversation with said it truly was a 50/50 decision to the end and that he was really torn making the decision and getting pulled a couple different ways. That was also the rumor the whole time in the lead up.
Now even with those two things being true that doesn’t mean that Johnny handled it well or made the right decision, but there truly was no malicious intent here.