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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
What would you have done different in that situation? When you agree to a deal that the other side presented, and they call last second and walk away? Would you beg and plead with more money?
You cant force people to sign.
You can blame is a lot more for Chucky. Johnny not as much, because not many here would have signed him the offseason before to a big money deal. He even started on the 2nd line in camp.
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I would have never been in the situation where I had my star player unsigned heading into free agency. Johnny should have been signed or traded prior to the season. The Flames should have either overpaid to get the deal done the summer before or moved on as this was their franchise player.
The fact he gave Chucky the 3 year bridge was on him as well which he is fully to blame. Chucky was looking for a 6 year deal but the Flames couldn’t afford it because Treliving decided to sign Neal the previous summer.
I don’t think there were too many people very surprised that the flames lost both players in 2022 it was visible on the horizon in the summer of 2019