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Originally Posted by Bonded
No that is hand waving away all the mistakes Treliving made. He was terrible with coaches and he boxed himself in with his crappy UFA signings. Tkachuk had to bridge because of cap. That’s on Treliving and dipping into the free agent market. He is doing the same thing in Toronto.
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Yep, without that colossal mistake that was James Neal, the team would easily have enough money to ink Tkachuk to a long term 8 year deal with plenty of cap left over to add another quality player. But because of the Troy Brouwer buy out and the awful James Neal/Lucic contracts, the team had too much dead money on the books to afford the necessary raises and extensions for their homegrown guys.