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Originally Posted by cannon7
We saw the Gaudreau/Tkachuk eventuality years before it happened. Pretty much the day Gaudreau signed his last contract with the Flames the talk was when he'd be leaving. But the narrative turned into how Treliving was somehow blindsided by this turn of events. How is that a concrete vision even if we give Treliving the benefit of the doubt?
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I don’t know what happened behind closed doors, I do know this organization has a history of trading players before they should’ve. Alot of this is in hindsight, I do think the decision was hard for johnny and he probably gave management hints that he would consider. I think thats a verifiable fact at this point unless something came out that I missed. Flames were pretty awesome last year and to me it looked like they were on the cusp. We know what happened now but how could you trade Johnny last year or even the year before? We all would’ve said “what if” and “he is the new St.Louis”. He left, it does suck it did not work out but I am happy the organization did what they could to keep one the best Flames of the last 20 years.