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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Sigh. Gaudreau was willing to sign long-term before the start of the 2021 season. Treliving decided not to go for the long-term extension at that time, which was a tactical error. Tkachuk made the decision to leave after Gaudreau left. All would have worked out had the extension just been done the summer of 2021. That's on the Tre. It was a mistake. Live with it. Tre has and he managed to make lemonade out of a very bad situation. Because of that he's earned another short extension.
If he doesn't get the extension it will be interesting to see who will look at his job in Calgary and think that is the guy to take your team to the promised land. The Flames have had little success under Treliving and will have been left with a miserable cap situation, few prospects, and even less draft picks. And all for a bubble team? You would hope there would be a Stanley Cup banner in the mix after all the time and burned capital, but the Flames haven't been close to anything that matters.
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No Johnny was offered a fair deal for what he was providing at the time, he decided to bet on himself. His family even said they thought the offer was too low. Would you have signed Johnny to a long term extension at over 9 million a season that offseason?
Half of the fans had him traded to Philly for Morgan Frost and other junk. Johnny's value was as low as it could be at that point it would have been a fire able offence to sign a guy pacing at 60 points for the type of money he was commanding.