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Originally Posted by keenan87
As much as I would have loved to see these two leave Edmonton, it is nice to know there are still star players that want to play in small markets within Canada.
Hopefully Calgary can have the same luck in the future.
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Part of the Flames issue was luck, but Tre's mismanagement of the Gaudreau and Tkachuk contracts also played a role.
Tre could have re-signed Gaudreau long-term the year before his last year and chose not to. And he royally screwed up the Tkachuk situation by not offering him a long-term second contract.
The bottom line is Tre tried to get too cute on the contracts to his stars and got burned. He made some great trades for the Flames, but I'm not sorry the guy is gone.