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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Yes, and I think that the long term Tkachuk signing would have involved (a) a price bigger than a lot of people here would have agreed with at the time and (b) would not have been anything like 8 years. People were already thinking the $9M QO was rich for what Tkachuk had done to that point. (around a 70 point pace more or less). I think a new deal would have been 5 years at $10M.
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I also think people have this fallacy that had Treliving signed Tkachuk to an 8 year deal (skeptical Tkachuk would have signed for that term) that Tkachuk then everything would have been happily ever after.
I think it’s far more likely Tkachuk had a long term vision of playing in the US in his choice of teams at some point and very few things would have changed that, certainly not a contract offered by the Flames short of making him one of the highest paid players in the league. And even then, I’m not convinced he would have signed for 8 years.