That hurts to only get a 3rd, but at the same time at least ET pulled something off to get at least some kind of return for him. Otherwise he’d just walk away and sign with Tampa tomorrow anyway
anivoflean
he strung us along. he was never going to extend.
not sure why everyone is blaming the front office. we did what we were supposed to do. guentzel said 8×8. even if we didn’t put that on the table until thursday, our reported offer weeks ago was “a little under 8 million”. i refuse to believe he decided to walk over a couple hundred thousand.
CasTimber
At least they ripped the bandaid off before I got out of bed today so I didn’t have to spend the whole day stressing.
all1good
Why can’t we have nice things? NC professional sports are approaching Cleveland levels of cursed
ShrillRut
RIP GAS and GAJ 🙁
Extra-Sea2167
maybe a skjei announcement could cheer us up
all1good
I fail to see how this makes sense for Tampa. They have many needs. This contract will create holes they can’t fill and will handicap them in 4 years once this contract becomes an albatross
fogent94
Oh come on. Not Tampa
framingXjake
Thanks I hate it
Ashrelm
I really don’t think Jake was going to re sign. He’s after the money. Can’t blame him I guess. Time to move on.
DrewCrew62
Today is a good day to start drinking at noon I think
Should’ve done a one for one trade for Stamkos’ rights haha
Nilzy16
Well at least we ripped the bandaid off now instead of tomorrow
LookitsJ0SH
kill me now
Additional_Ratio_743
Just fell to my knees in the middle of a cookout parking lot
adsheppa
I mean, I’m gonna boo him now
NeouiGongwon
Holy… some of these redditors need to lay off the doomer juice. If the FO offered him what he asked and he still said no, then that’s on him. He doesn’t want to play here and that’s OK.
The Canes will be fine without him.
JosephMcCarthy1955
As much as it sucks, I will say getting a third just for his rights when he wasn’t coming back anyways is a tidy bit of business
NotAMythOrLegend
Pretty bummed about this. I thought he fit like a glove with Aho, Svech and Jarvis. A full season with them would’ve been electric.
adsheppa
So with rights traded, not sign and trade, he can only sign 7 years with TB. They gave us a 3rd rounder for 12 hours of exclusive discussions with him and his agent more or less.
aenand15
This sucks but not the worst. I thought Guentzel was fantastic for us but we can’t fill out the rest of our lineup as needed because we’d be paying our top 4 forwards so much.
I’d love to see us go for Stamkos and see if there’s 2 strong duos on different lines in Aho/Svech and Stamkos/Jarvis.
CC1X312
Lock up jarvy quick to give us something to be happy about
bk00pi
Before blaming the FO, remember that Guentzel has his cup already. This was always about securing the bag in a place him and his family actually want to be in. Unfortunately, that place isn’t Raleigh.
socialaxolotl
So now we’re back to exact team we had before we traded for him
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Tampa is stupid.
https://i.redd.it/e89pam9o7q9d1.gif
I’m sad.
That hurts to only get a 3rd, but at the same time at least ET pulled something off to get at least some kind of return for him. Otherwise he’d just walk away and sign with Tampa tomorrow anyway
he strung us along. he was never going to extend.
not sure why everyone is blaming the front office. we did what we were supposed to do. guentzel said 8×8. even if we didn’t put that on the table until thursday, our reported offer weeks ago was “a little under 8 million”. i refuse to believe he decided to walk over a couple hundred thousand.
At least they ripped the bandaid off before I got out of bed today so I didn’t have to spend the whole day stressing.
Why can’t we have nice things? NC professional sports are approaching Cleveland levels of cursed
RIP GAS and GAJ 🙁
maybe a skjei announcement could cheer us up
I fail to see how this makes sense for Tampa. They have many needs. This contract will create holes they can’t fill and will handicap them in 4 years once this contract becomes an albatross
Oh come on. Not Tampa
Thanks I hate it
I really don’t think Jake was going to re sign. He’s after the money. Can’t blame him I guess. Time to move on.
Today is a good day to start drinking at noon I think
https://i.redd.it/pcx9qvyu8q9d1.gif
Man this sucks
oh 😖
https://i.redd.it/y7tavefz8q9d1.gif
Should’ve done a one for one trade for Stamkos’ rights haha
Well at least we ripped the bandaid off now instead of tomorrow
kill me now
Just fell to my knees in the middle of a cookout parking lot
I mean, I’m gonna boo him now
Holy… some of these redditors need to lay off the doomer juice. If the FO offered him what he asked and he still said no, then that’s on him. He doesn’t want to play here and that’s OK.
The Canes will be fine without him.
As much as it sucks, I will say getting a third just for his rights when he wasn’t coming back anyways is a tidy bit of business
Pretty bummed about this. I thought he fit like a glove with Aho, Svech and Jarvis. A full season with them would’ve been electric.
So with rights traded, not sign and trade, he can only sign 7 years with TB. They gave us a 3rd rounder for 12 hours of exclusive discussions with him and his agent more or less.
This sucks but not the worst. I thought Guentzel was fantastic for us but we can’t fill out the rest of our lineup as needed because we’d be paying our top 4 forwards so much.
I’d love to see us go for Stamkos and see if there’s 2 strong duos on different lines in Aho/Svech and Stamkos/Jarvis.
Lock up jarvy quick to give us something to be happy about
Before blaming the FO, remember that Guentzel has his cup already. This was always about securing the bag in a place him and his family actually want to be in. Unfortunately, that place isn’t Raleigh.
So now we’re back to exact team we had before we traded for him
We will be fine