Quote:
Originally Posted by Poe969
I still don't get why people are mad at him. He did nothing wrong and didn't lead anyone on into thinking he was coming back. He was very noncommittal, he didn't rule anything out and wasn't forced to.
If only there was some way to have know when his contract was going to end and to somehow traded him for assets before he had complete control of the situation. It probably would have seemed rude to give him an ultimatum to sign or be traded, I mean what kind of franchise would do something as rude as taking control of the situation and essentially forcing a trade to better their team...wait, didn't the team that just made it to the finals and win the up the 2 previous years do that to one of their team leaders? I'm sure that upset a lot of their fans and other players??
Teams have to cut ties with players all the time and as kuch as it suck, they should have with Johnny before his NTC kicked in. Much like they should with Tkachuk if he doesn't want to sign long term.
|
For me the only offputting is the story about him demanding 10.5, getting 10.5 and then changing his mind.
The trade you are talking about would have happened in early July 2021, with him being a rental and coming off two sub PPG seasons. The Flames would have gotten very poor returns on that one. You don’t think fans would be upset, especially when Treliving says “well, he didn’t say he was refusing to sign - he just hadn’t made up his mind yet”.