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Originally Posted by Rhett44
I went overboard with my last comment, I guess it isn't a "fact".
But just knowing how Murray Edwards operates, any time I see a rumor like this it just gets me going. I do think it is a combination of Treliving and ownership.
For example most of the dealing with Johnny and Tkachuk leading to them leaving is on Brad. But panic trading for Huberdeau and Weegar to stay competitive is more on ownership. And I personally don't think Conroy has any say on if he can rebuild or retool.
For example we made all these trades that I was a fan of this past year. But we got lucky. Let's not pretend we didn't offer Lindholm and Hanifin large amounts of money for them to stay. Rumor is we offered Tanev an extension as well.
We got more lucky those 3 players declined us than anything else. Because we were forced to trade them for futures as a result.
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More assumptions in there in my opinion.
We don't know the ins and outs of the Gaudreau contract negotiation; the summer before, or the summer he left.
Maybe Treliving took a $7M/yr contract to Edwards and recommended they do it in the summer of 2022.
Maybe Treliving said that's what it will take and to pass.
We don't know.
And then recently they move UFAs. Was that a change in view? Conroy's presence? Or did they all just want to leave so they had no choice?
They did move Toffoli before the season started which isn't a win at all costs move.
I'm not pretending to know more than you do? I honestly have no idea. But the future is a lot brighter if Conroy doesn't have roadblocks so fingers crossed.