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Originally Posted by Itse
He's ... a good negotiator,
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I am not sure he is. Yes, the Lindholm contract turned out fortunately, but typically he either overpays aging free agents on both term and aav (including Huberdeau, digned to age 38), lowballs guys who end up walking for nothing when they don't feel Treliving valued them well (Gaudreau, Brodie), strongarms and lowballs guys on aav and yet gets burned with shorter term rfa deals than what those players should be signing (Gaudreau, Mangiapane, Kylington, the list goes on), or just throws a fit when things don't go his way in negotiations (Kulak).
You look across the league and other GMs have signed their players to far more enviable deals.