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Originally Posted by Jordan!
Page 7 and people still think he would've stayed in Calgary? He wanted to be in the U.S and particularly Florida.
Move on guys.
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I take his word when he said he was ready to sign long term early in his career (FormerPresJamesTaylor found the exact quote below) We heard stories from his family like how he told his mom how amazing Gio is and how Gio does this and Gio does that, etc. and he really liked this team and the players.
Then we took him down a peg because the team was too traditionalist and didn't like his positive attitude, seeing that as immaturity. He did have immaturity for sure but still, you take a generational talent and bridge contract him to make sure we have cap space to do the yearly Brad Treliiving dance of overpaying some vets and old free agents that then have to be demoted or bought out?
This is an organizational problem. From what I've heard, Gaudreau was on the fence but how the organization treated him over the years, trying to nickel and dime his contracts, etc. also pushed him/his family over the edge when he was so much on the edge to stay here.
This may all be Murray Edwards fault for giving BT a budget and marching orders to extract value out of everything but the only good news is that Conroy has seen this play out first hand and he might be able to do things differently going forward.