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Old 02-02-2024, 08:22 PM   #352
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Originally Posted by Jay Random View Post
Gaudreau botched Gaudreau. Treliving thought he had a deal. Gaudreau's agent even thought he had a deal. At the last minute, Gaudreau said, ‘No deal.’

As for Huberdeau, from the very minute the trade was announced, some posters on CP were crying about how Treliving had better not botch this one by walking him to free agency. Those people, at least, have no cause to complain about how it turned out.
I maintain Treliving needed to ink the extension with gaudreau the summer prior.

Letting it drag into the season was negligent of the potential risk and stupid. You don't #### around with your player that makes your whole offense go. And even if they signed him, his stock went way up at that point too.

Gaudreau botched his end of it by passing up more money and going to a terrible destination to whither away but Treluving botched his end too by letting it get to that point where the fate of the whole core's future in calgary is left up to an emotional decision at the last minute.

Treliving as the gm in that situation does NOT deserve any defense.

Play on the edge, you open yourself up to being burnt.

The outcome of that situation has resulted in potentially 5-6 years of a team that wont be able to compete for anything until it rebuilds through the draft.

You're putting it entirely on gaudreau for exercising his rights as a player when the Flames allowed him to remain unsigned until that point? Woof.

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