At any rate, he sounded disappointed that he was only offered a bridge deal. Anything 6-8 years as Tkachuk was quoted as wanting at the time would have been better, for both the team and the relationship with the player, than a bridge deal with a poison pill QO at the end. You have a 22 year old top 6 drafted player with 3 years in the league already coming off of a PPG season, those are exactly the kind of players that you give them what they want.
What other teams did with other players that season has no bearing on what the Flames should have done.
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