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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
This disaster was created by Treliving with the absolutely stupid 3 year contract, he had the hammer and handed it to Tkachuk on a golden platter.
He did the same with Mangiapane, could have had him on a reasonable long term contract but now he's a $5.5m player.
Good GM's lock up their good young players when they have the hammer, for some reason Treliving stopped doing that.
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Yep this is what I’ve been saying for a long time. I was actually pretty pissed when Tkachuk and Mangiapane were signed to such short extensions.
I get that Treliving wanted to maximize his 2022 window, but the risk of these guys breaking out and being really expensive was always there; pllus the added threat of them taking their 1 year QO and then saying peace.
In the end, all we as fans got out of that window was a bunch of first round exits, a disastrous 2021 season, a second round appearance and a quick exit from our bitter rivals up north. Not exactly what he had probably envisioned.