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Originally Posted by Jay Random
You are the one who talked about percentages. He had a limited time to spend on the whole matter, but you have no information about how he allocated that time among the different tasks involved. You pulled that part out of your arse.
Based on what you have offered on this forum under the rubric of reasoning, I see no evidence that you ever deal in concepts that I would find difficult. Mind you, I don't know what you do for a living: if it involves higher mathematics, then I cheerfully admit I haven't got the background to deal with some of the concepts that arise from that. But percentages are not higher mathematics.
You yourself admitted that the St. Louis and Carolina offers were greatly inferior to the Florida one, and you yourself said he wasn't going to match the Florida offer by continuing to negotiate with those teams. Nuance doesn't enter into it when the offers aren't even close.
Do you even read your own posts before sneering at other people's responses?
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So if I have no information on how he allocated his time, do you? We know he had to spend time talking to Tkachuks camp on what the options were. We know he had to spend time talking to all the teams on his list. We know he had likely had to spend a decent amount of time working out the Florida deal. We know he had to allow Tkachuk time to actually work the contract with Florida. So why don't you tell me how much time out of the four days you would guess he spent on negotiating with St Louis and Carolina?
Necas alone could outperform Huberdeau over the next 8 years while on a cheaper contract. So far after the first year he is. Necas is 24, Huberdeau is 30. That's a big difference moving forward. So even if they traded Tkachuk straight up for Necas, things aren't cut and dry. In 5 years when Necas is 29 and Huberdeau is 35 what does their play look like in comparison? So yes I do believe if Treliving focused on a futures oriented package it would have been better for the Flames long term, even if the perceived value at the moment of the trade was viewed as less. You know because there is actually is nuance to value.