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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Nah, the flames had a cap. If we offer him 12 m/year I think he's still here. That's $20 million more than his current contract.
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Nope. If Tkachuk was truly interested in staying at that price he would have negotiated that deal and not told the Flames he wouldn’t sign.
i think the Flames had a shot to get him on a 6 year deal in 2019 but couldn’t dump Brodie, Frolik or whoever’s salary they needed to cut to have the space to give him the $9M it likely would have took to get him to agree to 6 years.
Tkachuk said when he talked to teams during the free agent period he knew it was time to move on. I think we all knew what happened last summer was the likely outcome. Tkachuk got the market he wanted and signed a team friendly deal to get there. The low taxes, and weather were likely key to him accepting less and they were the reigning Presidents Trophy winners with Barkov, Reinhart, Bennett, Ekblad etc all being around the same age as Chucky. Based on the results of year 1 he made the right call.