Just night and day from the other Johnny.
Shows more loyalty to the Flames than Gaudreau did and all before playing a single game in the uniform. Up front, communicating with management in good faith and showing appreciation for being wanted here.
Huberdeau did what was right and best for his career at this point, no running around asking the input and permission of everybody close to him. No complaints about uprooting and relocating and proximity to family, just handled it like a professional who is an individual grown up capable of making decisions for himself and not dragging that #### out.
I still reflect back on Johnny's actions and come away thinking they were childish, and the flimsy explanations after the fact didn't help it any. But he was entitled to making his own decisions/mistakes, even if he ultimately let other people in his life make them for him and he gets to live with his choices, but damn did Tkachuk and Huberdeau's conduct of business here make Gaudreau's look bad by comparison.
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