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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
You have to know your own player. Did the organization have a perspective on why he had the down years followed by a career season? I’ve never been comfortable that the club’s offers to Gaudreau changed so radically from one off season to the next. And did they over correct in signing Huberdeau instantly?
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Yeah, this is a good take. I can understand trying to lock a player in on a value contract after a down year but when the player is of Johnny’s quality and he is coming off a down year, you can’t drive the player down too hard. What reason would he have for signing that contract at that stage?
Painful to hear that a deal could have been done a year before because that’s when the deal should have been done. This isn’t a market that can be cavalier with its asset base. We don’t get players lining up to take great deals because they get to live in the prairies - it just doesn’t happen. The plan all along should have been to sign him in 2021, or to trade him before the season started in October 2021.
I’ll be cheering Johnny on when he comes back to town.