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Originally Posted by AC
Tkachuk forced his way off the team while under contract. I'm just not sure why anything would have changed had he been signed to a longer deal the last opportunity we had.
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Nah, that's not the correct way to look at it. The 4th year was always going to be a "is he going to sign this off season and if not you need to trade him" scenario, that was the nature of the final RFA year, we're seeing it all over the league.
That doesn't automatically equal "he would have requested a trade if he had a 6 year deal". And even if he did, that would have given us way more time to sit back, analyze and put him out to the league on our schedule instead of a week notice or whatever it was.