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Old 09-22-2022, 10:09 PM   #3554
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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino View Post
My guess is Tkachuk comments are more because he wants to be on the top line. He didn't stop sulking with the Flames until he was given topline minutes. Kind of goes along with the idea he wanted to be the Flames captain, but I bet every guy in that dressing room remembered that he didn't show up the year before. Tkachuk jockeying for a spot next to Barkov.
I actually disagree with you.

I have always felt that Tkachuk coming from a Professional Hockey family was predictable. He's a mercenary.

He will give you what you pay him to give you. No more. No less. Hence my consistent assertion that he is not 'Captain Material.'

He has it all now. He is paid. Job done. Top line, third line, I dont think he cares anymore. He'll still perform, of course, because he's probably got at least one more contract in him, but he is in this for the life and the money and he's already gotten the vast majority of what he's going to get.
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