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Originally Posted by Locke
So...Treliving put another impending UFA on Radio-Silence and in that uncertainty he decided to walk.
I think we need to take a long hard look at the legacy of how Treliving treated the players.
The stink around that guy grows more and more pungent as the days go by.
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I think the negativity from Tofoli and Backlund are probably one and the same. Tofoli flat out validated it. At seasons end, him and Backlund were two who didn’t #### all over the team. Rumour is Backs had issues, but he was clearly priority 1 was to win with the Flames.
Subsequent to that, the Flames have prioritized trying to sign one of the players , Lindholm, who was super negative. Now IMO the Flames have done the right thing, this is about hockey and on ice, but I can see how could have soured both. They expected the “I want to be here” to override where they should have been in the pecking order based on importance to results.