If I had to guess I'd lean heavier to the "Tkachuck was mapping his future outside of Calgary" with that contract, and feel like Brad wouldn't make that poor of a judgement call in not going longer to save $1m-$1.5m a year on AAV.
The Frolik thing wasn't the roadblock many think it was, imo. I feel like if Treliving negotiated say a $8.5m 5/6 year deal, he would have done what was necessary to be cap compliant.
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