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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Correct, I'm a bigger fan of someone who left but was honest about it instead of someone who also left but wasn't honest or decisive. Crazy thought people care more about actions than words.
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You don’t really care about actions more than words, though. Not if you look at the situations objectively.
Gaudreau signed here out of college when he didn’t have to. His signed a contract that took away UFA years when he didn’t have to. And regardless of the decision he ended up making, he considered staying when he didn’t have to.
Tkachuk signed the ELC he had to sign, and then the second best contract he could have signed in terms of getting him to UFA the fastest, and then refused to even consider signing long term (but didn’t “demand a trade” just made it clear he would sign long term with someone else, weird!)
You can make up stories about honesty or whatever (Tkachuk also said he loved it here and would be very open to staying long term, and then followed up by not even listening to long term offers… a lie?), but you can’t say you care more about actions than words when your entire complaint seems to come down to words one guy said lol. Actions favour Gaudreau.
I think both guys deserve a “thanks for your service, see ya never” at this point. And it’s fine if you want to make up 100 reasons why one was better than the other. But just know there’s no confusion, and spouting mindless platitudes about “honesty” and other armchair character diagnosis wouldn’t clear any confusion if there were.