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Originally Posted by dino7c
He also said he wanted to sign long term in may 2022 so take it with a grain of salt
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Fair, but in the vein of "benefit of the doubt" maybe he really did want to re-sign long term here. He still talks about how much he loved it here and how awesome all the guys on the team were.
Maybe (between Garbage Bag Day interviews and the decision not to re-sign) he had a conversation either with Treliving about Sutter's future or with Sutter himself about his own future (Captaincy, icetime, giving him his own line, using him in OT, etc).
Maybe one of those conversations led him from "I want to stay" to "well I guess nothing's gonna change here, so I might as well take advantage of my contract situation and go somewhere I might be more useful."
I mean, I'm not saying he's irreproachable... just suggesting he could have been sincere and then changed his mind.