Imagine a world in which Matthew Tkachuk ended up in Carolina last summer instead of Florida. One doesn’t have to imagine too hard. PierreVLeBrun details how the Hurricanes almost acquired the game-changing star from Calgary:
The Stanley Cup finalists, Tampa Bay and Colorado, were never logical options for cap and roster reasons.“When you get the list of teams, and I’m not going to get into the other teams, but pretty quickly the group of teams they gave us was probably down two or three,” then-Flames general manager Brad Treliving. “There just wasn’t a path. At least when I looked at it, I didn’t see a path toward a deal, based from a financial standpoint.
“We had an idea what the number was going to be for Matthew, because we’re doing a sign-and-trade, and so when you look at who can absorb that number and what they would have to move to absorb that number, and you make your calls to the teams, in fairly short order it was obvious there wasn’t a path to a deal with some of them.”
The Panthers quickly became front-runners when it was apparent the Flames could end up with star winger“It doesn’t come very often that you move a player of Matthew’s caliber and the age and the rest of it,” Treliving said. “So we got to make the deal work for us. “You’re framing it against all the other deals that were out there. I thought the talent that we were getting and the type of players we were getting was certainly the best deal that we had. And we love the players that we got.”The Flames GM knew he had to make contact with his new star — his integration into Calgary would decide the Flames' future.
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