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Originally Posted by dino7c
Brad Treliving
Eric Francis
Sarvalli (sp)
like what are you debating here? Its common knowledge Gaudreau signed for less than he was offered from the Flames
He signed for 68.25M...Flames started at 9x8 and moved up
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Re-read your post and I see you weren't actually making the baseless claim that Johnny reneged. My bad.
As for the offers, no argument the Flames offered the most. The challenge is that the $84M deal was never actually on the table at the same time as the other offers. Many speculated that Johnny's camp would know exactly which teams were interested and what their offers would be long before the deadline...but that seems unlikely considering how it all played out.
If he could do it over again with access to all of the information, maybe he would take the $84M. But he never turned that amount down to sign the deal he did with CBJ - he turned down $84M to take on risk/uncertainty that he could find a deal that better suited his priorities (which may have included hoping for a higher AAV). That was the decision.
It probably didn't go as he hoped, but once the $84M was off the table it became completely irrelevant.