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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
You are looking for a pattern that doesn't exist.
- Juuso's development was de-railed by injuries which severely changed his mobility and skating. He's never been the same player. If he's an NHLer, he's likely a marginal one. 4 point night aside
- Sam is probably the one that could be evaluated as something going wrong
- Tkachuk was a great pick that turned into an elite player. He exercised his rights as a pending free agent to move on to somewhere he preferred to live.
That's it. There's not a greater story here.
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Alright, let's look at this
- Juuso's development was de-railed by injuries and then magically gets out of Calgary and begins putting up promising numbers and has now strung together 50+ games of NHL hockey at a much better level than the choices we put ahead of him. It's a clear failure to assess player skill by the organization at some level.
- Sam got screwed over by moronic coaching hires, and I'd say that's behind us except we now have a head coach that in his time here has seen players leave the organization with no love lost for him (Tkachuk), and see the point about Juuso - he and Sutter never seemed to click. That coach has also brought a 115 point player down to 50'ish. Maybe my excitement regarding Sutter's initial hire was completely misplaced.
- Tkachuk was a great pick, and we signed him to one of the worst contracts imaginable when we signed him after his ELC. He should have been signed for 6-8 years (which the player has openly stated he wanted), but Treliving wouldn't pay the price to move out Frolik who had openly asked for a trade and would get traded in the coming season...years later we then spend a 1st to dump Monahan just to sign an old Kadri - that just doesn't seem smart. The absolute priority in summer of 2019 should have been to give Matthew Tkachuk the biggest contract in Calgary Flames history, we didn't - mistake.
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“During this process this summer, I kind of thought back to three years prior when I was going through my contract situation then,” said Tkachuk. “Throughout the whole process after my entry-level, I was just like ‘No, [I want to sign for] six, seven, eight years. What are we doing?’ And nothing really came from it.”
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Three screw ups.