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Originally Posted by FormerPresJamesTaylor
https://thehockeywriters.com/calgary...tract-2019-20/
Sorry, brushing aside criticism and pretending "we'll never know" is dumb. That quote isn't Tkachuk doing the cliche "I love X team" thing, he states plainly the idea was long term, then he talked to Trelivng and the plan shifted.
Maybe Tkachuk walks as a UFA after that deal, because he's American, but it's pretty damn obvious that Treliving had an opportunity to lock this guy up long term and went short term route to save cap dollars for other players. It's dumb. It's a failure on Brad's part and brushing it aside is just foolish.
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Oof.
If I was interviewing Treliving for a GM job, I'd definitely be asking him a lot of questions about this.