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Originally Posted by kukkudo
From inside knowledge, Tkachuk wanted the keys. Mitch Marner money (11M AAV) and wanted to be the Captain. Flames were not giving him any of those at that time.
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This.
He was only signing 6+ years if it came at what would have been seen at the time as an overpayment. His ask was somewhere between Marner (6 x $10.9M) and Rantanen (6 x $9.25M). None of the high profile RFAs that year were signing for 8 years...6 years was where the market had been established.
3 x $7M or 6 x $10M...TBH for a team that's window what those 3 years with Gaudreau under contract as well the 3 x $7M seems like the best bet to try to win a cup, it just didn't work. Flames took the same approach that Tampa took with Point that offseason (3 year deal), don't see much complaining about how that was "offensive to Point" on here, or that it forced him out of Tampa.
And in the end they still offered Tkachuk 8 x $10.5M to stay here as an RFA, and he asked for a trade. He could have asked for a trade with 3 years and $10M still left on his 6 year contract too if had wished. Might not have changed anything.