To me this just shows how good he could have been for us and decided not to
doughflow
This couldn’t go in the other dozen Chucky posts?
Schafs021082
I’m happy for him, I’ll adopt The Pathers as my East team, two ways it could have been sweeter though
1) if it was the Flames he was playing on ( like it should have been) Or 2) if they were playing edmonton in the Cup and he scored the Cup winning goal.
MonkeySailor
As good a place as any to point out again, that it was Treliving’s genius idea of a bridge deal that fucked everything up:
> However, in his first interview since being traded, Tkachuk told Sportsnet.ca Saturday that when he put his signature on his three-year bridge deal in 2019, he always knew there was a chance at its conclusion it would be time to leave.
> “I put myself in a position with the last deal I signed to kind of reevaluate my life and my career at this stage, and I kind of came to the conclusion after the RFA period (July 13) it was time to look elsewhere,” he explained of the decision that rocked Calgary.
> “There’s a lot that went into it. There’s no single reason why I left. At the end of the day, I wanted to re-evaluate where I’m at, and after talking to a few teams I did that, and kind of came down to that conclusion.
> **“I didn’t know what my decision was going to be until that talking period.**
> **“It all changed then.”**
So in other words, no bridge deal, no RFA talking period, Tkachuk might still be a Flame. And that becomes even more likely if the Flames hadn’t tried to lowball Gaudreau the previous year and simply paid him his fair worth. I mean, Gaudreau’s dad came out and said that had the Flames come close to their asking price (~8.5M per for 8yrs) back in the summer of 21, they would have signed.
Treliving really set this franchise back in so many ways.
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To me this just shows how good he could have been for us and decided not to
This couldn’t go in the other dozen Chucky posts?
I’m happy for him, I’ll adopt The Pathers as my East team, two ways it could have been sweeter though
1) if it was the Flames he was playing on ( like it should have been)
Or
2) if they were playing edmonton in the Cup and he scored the Cup winning goal.
As good a place as any to point out again, that it was Treliving’s genius idea of a bridge deal that fucked everything up:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/tkachuk-exclusive-star-winger-explains-why-he-left-the-flames/
> However, in his first interview since being traded, Tkachuk told Sportsnet.ca Saturday that when he put his signature on his three-year bridge deal in 2019, he always knew there was a chance at its conclusion it would be time to leave.
> “I put myself in a position with the last deal I signed to kind of reevaluate my life and my career at this stage, and I kind of came to the conclusion after the RFA period (July 13) it was time to look elsewhere,” he explained of the decision that rocked Calgary.
> “There’s a lot that went into it. There’s no single reason why I left. At the end of the day, I wanted to re-evaluate where I’m at, and after talking to a few teams I did that, and kind of came down to that conclusion.
> **“I didn’t know what my decision was going to be until that talking period.**
> **“It all changed then.”**
So in other words, no bridge deal, no RFA talking period, Tkachuk might still be a Flame. And that becomes even more likely if the Flames hadn’t tried to lowball Gaudreau the previous year and simply paid him his fair worth. I mean, Gaudreau’s dad came out and said that had the Flames come close to their asking price (~8.5M per for 8yrs) back in the summer of 21, they would have signed.
Treliving really set this franchise back in so many ways.