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Originally Posted by GioforPM
You haven't explained your plan in this case. Was it trading Gaudreau last summer? That was a bad idea. Some might say "insane".
Do you know that the Flames "decided" not to extend Tkachuk last year? Or did they try and he said no, thinking he needed a better season, similar to Gaudreau?
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This is what I mean, once you have a statement of facts around the fact that two elite players want out of Calgary, you can argue about why. No other team has lost two assets like this in 14 days based on decisions made by the player before that I can remember, so this is definitely a first. You believe that reasonable efforts were made to prevent this and it is just bad luck. I think that it is incompetence from an asset management perspective.
100 percent I would either know they were staying or maximize value. I would not have hoped that two elite players would stick around to play on a team that could not make the playoffs in the powerful Canadian division last year.