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Originally Posted by Vinny01
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
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Agree with all your points here, but I thought the "official" reason Treliving felt he had to bridge Matthew was because he wanted to "keep the band together" and was unwilling to trade Frolik and his $4.3 million salary to free up space for Tkachuk.
Probably both are true, tbh, as Neal's contract which was then parlayed into Lucic's contract obviously didn't help things lol