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Originally Posted by Bingo
Right but if you're in his shoes and you don't know what he's thinking and you won't find out until the last minute because that's the agent's history what do you do?
Move him for a mid round pick to make sure you look smarter than if he just walks away completely voiding a 50% chance of bringing a huge asset back for nothing?
Your box in is unreasonable.
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Hey, Gaudreau isn't signed, he clearly wants to go to Philly, maybe a sign-and-trade where it's win-win-win could work during the draft! But Philly goes out and gets DeAngelo shortly after the draft and now that's off the table. A lost opportunity because Treliving wanted to gamble on the least sure gamble he could make.
Again, you don't need to be a psychic to have a contingency plan or set deadlines to ensure the best possible outcome for your organization when depending on situations out of your control. This wasn't some unforeseen circumstance that no one could have predicted.