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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
For those saying the Flames made a mistake not signing Johnny an off-season earlier, how large a contract would YOU have offered.
this is a player that coming off seasons of 58 points in 70 games and 49 points in 56 games.
So what's the max you would have offered?
Just saying "they should have signed him" isn't enough. Because we know the Flames tried to. So what would have been the max deal you would have offered given his recent seasons.
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I'm sure they went back and forth likely in the offseason prior to Johnny's last, but we all know how Treliving liked to lowball his own guys and I tend to think a sensible offer may have got it done and the deal would have ended up a bargain. My issue is that he was still the best forward in the organization and letting him go into the last year of the deal was a risk that the GM was willing to take. It blew up in his face of course. I do hope one day we can get past Treliving talk but the reality is that his work in 2022 was disastrous for the organization and probably more damaging that anything Risebrough or Button did. His work that year has led directly to the Flames being the last place team it is today.