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			For never was there a story of more woe than this of the Flames and their Johnny Gaudreau.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 03:26 AM
			
			
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				Jesus guys, can we just move on now. JG made his choice.  
 
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guy went on a podcast to talk about it, seems newsworthy
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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			07-20-2022, 09:11 AM
			
			
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			07-20-2022, 09:13 AM
			
			
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			07-20-2022, 09:16 AM
			
			
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Hardest thing to read there is that he wanted to re-sign last summer. We’ll probably never know now, but man it would have been nice to have him locked up at 8 x 8
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:17 AM
			
			
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I felt anger towards Gaudreau.  Now I feel bad for feeling that.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:20 AM
			
			
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				I felt anger towards Gaudreau.  Now I feel bad for feeling that. 
			
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Cause he had the time to get a PR puff piece out? I'm less mad about him not signing than the way he did it.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:20 AM
			
			
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			Damage control, I don't buy the whole last minute decision crap. 
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				Cause he had the time to get a PR puff piece out?  I'm less mad about him not signing than the way he did it. 
			
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			07-20-2022, 09:20 AM
			
			
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				Hardest thing to read there is that he wanted to re-sign last summer. We’ll probably never know now, but man it would have been nice to have him locked up at 8 x 8 
			
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I think he wanted to re-sign even this summer. He probably still wants to re-sign deep down. He wants a bit of everything. He's an indecisive guy.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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			07-20-2022, 09:22 AM
			
			
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				Hardest thing to read there is that he wanted to re-sign last summer. 
			
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Bull####.
 
Who’s the last star level player to re-up with a year left and arguably had more potential to hit?
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:23 AM
			
			
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				I felt anger towards Gaudreau.  Now I feel bad for feeling that. 
			
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I like the column. touches on what many people were thinking but the family comments really rang true.
 
Especially there were a few people going on about "he's rich and can just jump on a plane for family"
 
He likely had help writing it, but it seemed sincere.  May be a puff piece but there is still likely a lot of truth in there.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:23 AM
			
			
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			07-20-2022, 09:23 AM
			
			
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			07-20-2022, 09:24 AM
			
			
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			He'll play for the Blue Jackets. That's punishment enough. All is forgiven.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:24 AM
			
			
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			As a guy who moved across the country after his mother got sick, I fully understand why Johnny made the decision to live closer to family. I think most people can understand that, it's just the way it all seemed to go down that was odd.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:25 AM
			
			
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				I like the column. touches on what many people were thinking but the family comments really rang true. 
 
Especially there were a few people going on about "he's rich and can just jump on a plane for family" 
 
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Likely had help writing it? It's definitely  a ghost writer in these types of articles.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:25 AM
			
			
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			Ghost writer for a ghost.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			07-20-2022, 09:26 AM
			
			
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			A lot of people found it odd Gaudreau hadn't said anything to the Calgary fanbase.  Most would have tweeted, either a 30 second video or short blurb, thanking their former team and been done with it.   
 
At least give him credit for trying to do something bigger.    
 
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			07-20-2022, 09:28 AM
			
			
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				Likely had help writing it? It's definitely  a ghost writer in these types of articles. 
			
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Just trying to be nice.
 
There's been a few where I think the player did a fair bit of the work and just had it polished by a pro. 
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			07-20-2022, 09:31 AM
			
			
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			Nice little article, but just because he was flip-flopping until the end and didn't decide until the last minute doesn't mean he was close to returning IMO. He just put off making the hard decision for as long as he could. 
 
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