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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Hopefully not all of them at once, and hopefully not until a trade deal is actually on the table.
If they let Tkachuk talk to all the teams on the list and one is offering $9 million AAV and the other is offering $10.5 AAV, Tkachuk could then just turn around and take one (or more) of those teams out of the mix and pull the plug on any deal Treliving was working on.
Treliving needs to wait until they are about to pull the trigger before letting him negotiate with another team. And hopefully other teams on his list don't start leaking that they are interested, because if Tkachuk preferred one over the other, he could shorten his list.
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This was my thought -- it is a very delicate negotiation from the Flames side.
On one hand, once Treliving has Tkachuk's confirmed list of teams he'd sign with, ideally he'll use that list to shop him around and get the highest offer. But if I'm one of those teams, I probably don't agree to a trade (or at least, be willing to pay top dollar) unless I know I can get a deal done that makes sense -- Tkachuk willing to sign with me for $12Mx7 doesn't mean anything if I'm only willing to pay $9M).
So either Treliving can say "you don't get to negotiate" and just take whatever offer is best, or ideally he can negotiate a deal in principle ("Matthew will sign for "x" for "y" years") and then shop that contract around like a sign and trade. At the very least he should have a ballpark in mind so that GM's know how much it will cost them at a minimum (fortunately, Tkachuk would have been able to negotiate with teams already during his offer sheet window so he should have an idea what the market is).
What you don't want to have happen is Tkachuk's camp playing teams off of each other and trying to manipulate a trade to the team that will pay Tkachuk the most, versus the team that gives Calgary the best return.