Boom Boom Apathy
I am the Professor. Deal with it!
- Sep 6, 2006
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Maybe. You can go back and look at my posts from way back and I was of the opinion that he wasn't going to be re-signed from day 1 and would go to UFA. In the poll we set up I even voted that way.Depends if you believe his negotiation tactics had an affect on whether Guentzel signed with us or not. Considering we were in active negotiations with him, and apparently participating in those negotiations held up money that we could have used to sign other leaving UFAs, I don't buy the idea that Guentzel was never going to sign with us. I think there was a very real possibility that he would have, but we missed our opportunity to do so throughout the negotiation process.
Who knows for sure though. Maybe he was open to signing here. Maybe he wanted to listen to offers, but was going to shop around as well.
We'll never know so we're left to speculate and as fans, we speculate in a direction that aligns with our views (myself included).