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Originally Posted by ComixZone
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.
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Tkachuk was never signing an 8 year deal and it likely would have had to match McDavid’s to even consider it. Marner signed for $11Mx6 and Matthews $11.65Mx5 in the same offseason. As soon as those deals were signed the hope of getting Tkachuk on a max term died. Tkachuk even commented how he was a huge fan of the 5 year term and was excited to see players get paid that much for that term.
Realistically the Flames would have had to be close to the Marner deal for 6 years or something around the Aho deal but likely a bit more. Sure we would have had Chucky for 2-3 more years but likely not able to get as much in a trade as a team who was signing him for 8 years got.