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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
They called it embarrassing vs the 10.5 offer he got. Its embarrassing that Johnny and his camp thought he should get 10.5 for being a 50-60 point player.
Even if the offer was 7.5-8.5 at the time that seems like a very good offer for a player who had a lot of question marks around him coming into the season.
Who knows what the Tkachuk deal would have looked like at 6 years but if we look around the league during that time, it would have been 9 plus. After 2 down years everyone would have had pitchforks out for Treliving if we had a 50 point Tkachuk at 9 million plus.
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Yup it's easy to say with hindsight on both of those things, especially knowing what we know post COVID and how that partially changed these players wanting to play in Canada.
Really most people wanted Gaudreau traded after the 20-21 season, not extended. And if Treliving gave him the 8 x $9M (i've heard that was the ask at the time) then he would have been roasted for that too.
If anything the history shows now that he should have just traded him...because he's likely not living up to a $9 or $10.5M contract right now anyways. (This is what we should remember before signing Andersson to a contract extension when he's 30).
And in terms of Tkachuk the longest high profile RFA signing that year was 6 years and it was Rantanen / Marner that got $9.25M and $10.9M respectively and I've heard that Tkachuk also wanted within that same range as Rantanen for a 6 year deal.
In the end if either guy wanted to stay there was a more than generous offer on the table for both of them to stay, and both decided they wanted to leave to actually take less money.