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Originally Posted by Jay Random
A lot of people on CP said he wasn't that player anymore the year he got 49 points.
The money the team spent on James Neal is a red herring. They signed him in 2018 and traded him away in 2019. There is no possible way they could have taken into account, in 2018, that the 2021-22 season would be shortened because of Covid, that Gaudreau would perform poorly, or that he would hem and haw until the very last minute before rejecting an $84 million contract to play for less money closer to home.
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I'm just basing my opinion off an interview with Guy and he said Johnny was really wanting to sign with us the summer prior but we low balled him. Now obviously that is one side of the story but seems like a mistake to not give him a contract given what transpired the next summer.