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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
Except Treliving did in fact back himself into a corner. Why are you holding onto Frolik when you could be shedding some cap and giving one of your all star wingers an 8 year deal? I firmly believe Tkachuk would have been willing to accept an 8 year deal starting with an 8 and we'd still have him. Instead, Treliving, as others have mentioned, wasn't really a guy that thought about the future, he was a "now" GM. Hence why we always spent up to the cap with middling players and our stars getting hurt for raises in the long run. It wasn't until we lost Johnny, traded Tkachuk, and dumped Monahan for a 1st that we finally had cap space again, only for Treliving to use it all up for Huberdeau and Weegar's contracts. Lucic's contract finally expiring? Doesn't matter, Huberdeau takes it all. We're in the same mess, and it's because of Treliving.
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0.0% chance.
Look at the other deals for similar players signed that off-season. 2, 3, 5, 6 years were the options. Kyle Connor being the lone exception, but there is no reason to believe Tkachuk would bungle it like that.