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Originally Posted by Monahammer
As much as it did suck to lose Johnny like we did, it is far more gruesome and egregious for the franchise to have lost Tkachuk like that. I think the trade was fine, but we should have been moving heaven and earth to extend him long term after first contract. I'm talking selling contracts on the cheap to make it happen. It was obviously a huge, huge error to not immediately prioritize matt as #1 on the team list. C'est la vie I suppose, but many of us knew he was our most important player ~3 season before he left.
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The piece of Tkachuk's 2nd contract that really irks me looking back at it is that we didn't pay to unload Frolik's contract in order to get Tkachuk signed long term.
This team spent a 1st to dump Monahan so we could sign Kadri - but (seemingly) wouldn't spend a 1st to dump Frolik in order to give Tkachuk an 8 year contract (and likely the C)?
I loathe that we spent a 1st to be able to sign Kadri.