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Originally Posted by dino7c
The guy asked for a trade, this was the market
other option was a long term deal
its not bizarre at all...in fact it was probably the best return of the Summer for any comparable player
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Well you don't have to grant the trade. Lots of guys said they wanted out and yet they're still around. Tkachuk wanted out after 2021, but the team smoothed things over and kept him for the last year of his deal. Even then, management could've traded him for draft picks and used those assets to parlay them into another player.
I mean honestly, if management's goal was to walk into the season with a team that had an even harder time scoring then they've certainly done that because the headlines right now are all about the top 6 and why they're struggling and the lack of chemistry and trying new lines. This was conversation was definitely an inevitability.