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Originally Posted by getbak
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What a self absorbed wind bag. The Flames reconsidered based on his report? Try again to be relevant Frank.
There was never any controversy, Treliving knows the optics and he and the Flames also know how it was going to play out. Flames didn't hold him back in any way, as he's under contract. Of course wink and nods get done and Treliving and the Flames know that over the previously weeks and months, so both sides knew Treliving had options. Bill Peters was hired basically months before, as soon as they announced in Carolina he wasn't going to be back with a month or so in the season, it may have made his decision to leave then as well.
Treliving and the Flames again knew that if there was an opening there'd be quiet negotiating. Also am pretty sure that those in the know figured it was a better than not chance that Dubas wasn't going to be back, regardless of the way it's played out in Toronto the last days, months ago.
So Treliving knew that Toronto would be an option, months ago, which also played into his situation with the Flames. The Flames likely knew that too.