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Originally Posted by Macho0978
I'd love to know the offer Treliving made Gaudreau the summer before he left. It would be interesting what this team would look like if Gaudreau signed 8 years for less than $9 mil after a bad year what this team would like like right now. Treviling IMo did a good job in the summer with the situation despite the teams struggles now, the summer before is where he messed up.
I think he gets fired soon if this keeps up and I want a GM that takes care of business a year early and locks up guys long term before they break out. Buffalo just did this with Thompson, Devils with Hughes and Hischier.
Buffalo did it with Skinner too but Thompson deal is so good he probably more than off set how bad Skinner's deal is now.
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Johnny himself said he didn't like the long negotiating process, I think this time it had a negative outcome because people started to get apprehensive. I think that's the point the parents were making when they said that Johnny would have signed sooner if he'd had the right offer.
If they had signed Johnny sooner and traded Matthew that might have been ideal especially since Matthew was acting like ylhe didn't want to be here for a while. I think because the team doesn't have a dynamic player like Johnny, it weighs on the teams confidence as they're just not able to ramp it up and score goals.
Sutters approach this season is probably a little different because of the way the team got away from the system in the playoffs last year. But him not giving the top line more reins this season might be counterproductive because now everyone is struggling. We need our top guys feeling good and having confidence but right now we can't get that from anywhere, because the team is not following a leader and feeling confident.