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Originally Posted by Monahammer
So we would be unhappy with 1 year of an 8 year contract, then we would be praising treliving in years 2-8. See: Tage Thompson; Sebastian Aho; Austin Matthews; Mitch Marner; Leon Draisaitl.
Everyone wants our GM to make moves to keep the fanbase happy all of a sudden? What the hell is that viewpoint?
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That's not really the point - the point is it's easy with hindsight to say "He should have just done 8 x $10M in 2019" but people wouldn't have made that point in 19-20 or 20-21, but sure I guess now after his 115 point season last year it's easy to use hindsight to say it. And Tkachuk would have needed to want to sign a 8 year contract that offseason too, Treliving couldn't just force him to accept an 8 year deal.
Look at the other RFAs that offseason:
Point: 3 x $6.75
Marner: 6 x $10.9M
Rantanen: 6 x $9.25M
Tkachuk: 3 x $7M
So based on the market that offseason the market for Tkachuk on a longer term deal would have been 6 years and likely between $9.25M and $10.9M.
Personally if I'm Treliving I would have taken the chance at a 3 x $7M instead of the 6 years between $9.25 to $10.9M too. Really if Tkachuk wanted to stay he could have taken 8 x $10.5M from the Flames then last offseason and it would have worked out to an average of $9.54M x 11 years.
If Tkachuk wanted to be here long term, he'd be here long term right now, he didn't want to and he left.