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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Tkachuk controlled his destination.
It's really easy to understand. It was explained by everyone. He went into the RFA period explored teams and had his agent call Treliving and tell him he was not signing a long term deal but would with this list of teams.
We also had a time crunch. How do you create a bidding war in a capped out league for a 10 million player? Which team will trade for him knowing he will only sign with certain teams?
It's not the same as Eichel at all not even close and even with Eichel not a lot of teams involved in a capped out league.
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Sure it's not the same. And your right all that was working against us.
But you know why? Because of the GMs failure. He created thay complete mess of a situation.
He either failed in the trade or failed because he created the situation where he had no leverage, but he failed and on a gigantic scale.