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Originally Posted by TOfan
What do you mean by lowball? Is there any evidence that Tkachuk was as good as gone once he signed that contract and if that is accurate why didn’t they trade him right then anyway?
I don’t think it’s quite as clear as you like to think it is, with the benefit of hindsight, no less.
You’re also assuming that Tkachuk would have been happy to stay for more money and more term. That’s pretty speculative.
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Tkachuk was coming off of 77 pt season, even without my source telling me his agent was stuck on 8x$8.5 Tkachuk himself has publicly stated he wanted a long term contract and plus said Treliving wanted to keep Frolik and the team together so the higher cap hit didn't work and convinced him on 5.5-7-9m bridge to do so.
We may not ever know if Gaudreau leaving had anything to do with Tkachuk telling Treliving he wouldn't sign an extension but what we do know is Tkachuk held Thors hammer and Treliving gave it to him, it was dumb period.