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Originally Posted by GioforPM
By “media” you mean Francis, who publicly rolled that one back this year. Anyway, what warning signs? His years ago interview with Philly? Did the warning signs include him continuing trouble negotiate? Who does that if they are not interested in a deal? At best he was displaying mixed signals. And if mixed signals are why you trade players a year out of their contract expiring, you’re trading a lot of people.
Iginla was totally different. They were a bottom half team, and sinking. So they should have made a trade earlier. But they did make a trade and got peanuts.
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The holdout on his RFA contract was a pretty big sign. That summer Monahan signed a 7 year basically right away, Gaudreau's went right up to training camp, sounded contentious, and took less money to sign for 6 years. That right there is a pretty big clue that he wanted to UFA as fast as possible, to bounce. How many best friend young guys have we seen sign matching contracts? A lot of them, not that one though. It's because he always had an eye to moving back east.