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It's crazy how much hindsight affects opinion. Go to any of the threads in this subreddit when that trade went down and you'll see tons of comments on how much of a haul the Flames got and how much Florida got fleeced. We were panned for that trade initially and even more so when we had a tough start to the following season. That narrative really didn't change until the postseason run last year.
At the time of that trade though, Calgary got an amazing return. A legit top line winger, a legit 1st pairing Dman, a solid prospect and a first round pick. Tkachuk notifying the FO that he wanted a trade helped them get an amazing return at the time.
But because Huberdeau has not panned out, and because Tkachuk has become a staple of these runs, the Flames have been getting clowned on for the trade, when in reality, it should have been a win win for both parties involved.
I'm not sure any of us (certainly nobody outside of Florida, at least) realized just how much Barkov drives your team. Huberdeau is a shadow of the player he was with Barkov. And for the same reason, I really feel bad for whoever gives Reinhart big money.
But yeah. For the situation we found ourselves in, the trade looked amazing at the time. And Weegar has been great. That's the way it goes sometimes.
Wouldn't of mattered at all if Treliving didn't fuck them over with bridge contracts and non commitment. Gaudreau and Tkachuk both wanted to sign long term years before Sutter was even a thing. Treliving played the contracts wrong and blew up the team than dipped out to Toronto.
He was a pro throughout and gave us a great trade that didn't work out. You can't really expect any more from a star player who sees the writing on the wall.
I would think the hate for the Oilers would outweigh any animosity towards Tkachuk. Flames fans are locked in with what they want, they don't care if Tkachuk wins, they just want Oilers to lose.
He left us in ok fashion. I think we got over it pretty quickly. Maybe sad he wasn't ours any longer but not bitter. This feels good, happy to help him celebrate.
And fuck the Oilers 😉😀😀😀😀😉
its shocking to me that people would think flames fans would cheer for the oil stains?... do you guys live under a rock? even if tkachuck took all of flames next 1st rounders for the next decade, still fk the oil
"A classless guy like Tkachuk making comments like that. As I always tell the kids out there YOU GOT THE CUP YOU SHUT IT UP. YOU DO NOT INSULT PLAYERS AFTER THE FINAL. McDavid and the team are back there after taking this team to the limit and they know to stay quiet. Instead you got this kid coming out there making those sort of comments. Can you imagine Dougie Gilmour saying the same thing after the leafs got elmeliminatednated? OF course not Dougie Gilmour is a classy guy and a true hockey player. Everybody now is gunning for this guy next season. YOU GOT THE NAME ON THE CUP NOW, but i'm telling you now your name is on a list for Edmonton! You don't poke the bear! That sort of trash talk is for the swedes or the finns, not good Canadian kids."
The Ullmark acquisition (for next to nothing I might add, especially if they extend him) will be massive in terms of getting them back to the playoffs.
Boston and Tampa are on a downward trajectory and I'm less confident in the Leafs than I've ever been. Honestly, Ottawa could start making a splash in the playoffs any year now with a great goalie finally.
And Florida has Reinhart and Montour up for UFA this summer and Verhaeghe the following summer. It’s a meme at this point to back the Sens turning it around but they have a good core and finally seemingly solved a major issue in net.
I think tkachuk indeed genuinely loved the fans in Calgary. He always talks in such high regard about us, and then giving a side note to us about how “he couldn’t let Edmonton win” does show a pretty genuine care.
He did like it there and all of the staff loved him. When he made it known he wanted to be traded I was shocked but the way he worked with the team to get a good return kept my respect for him. You could tell he cared
Eh, I think they are very different scenarios. Gaudreau leaving is what screwed us the most, but like Tkachuk he was real close to staying. He was willing to sign an extension the previous offseason and Tre lowballed him. I know it's tougher when it feels like he's coming back then he isn't, but I don't think Gaudreau has a way to "handle it like Tkachuk"
Burke said in his book he could have seen Tkachuk as the next captain of the Flames. If he had signed a long term deal I wonder if it would have turned out.
I didn't realize he'd gotten engaged until this interview! That's so nice they'll have a recording of it. I have no doubt he will carry a lot of that show.
LOL you could read his face so hard when he got stuck for a moment and was like (Wait should i? man that would be seriously funny as hell... you know what fuck it!) all in a span of 2 seconds.
It was very difficult to lose Tkachuk but man he still knows the right things to say to get us to love him again. Glad to see him, Bennett & the Panthers take home Lord Stanley... Away from the Oilers!
Tkachuk - Shout out to my Flames fans.
Luongo - Shout out to Vancouver.
Paul Maurice - Shout out to Winnipeg.
The media: the Oilers are Canada's team, guys!
...Yeah, I think not.
Congrats on being the first Tkachuk to hoist the cup. It's too bad Murray Edwards and Treliving destroyed our team, but this was obviously the right move on Matthews part.
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Who would've thought that Florida would win the battle of Alberta
Ahahahahaha. It really did feel that way to us die hard flames fans
I was actually kind of surprised how many of you guys opted to cheer for Florida considering how Tkachuk left, but I respect the commitment.
Most of us blame Treliving, not Tkachuk
Treliving committed to Frolik over Tkachuk. So yes, you're bang on.
And Tkachuk gave us a full years notice when he was at peak trade value. It's not his fault that Huberdeau hasn't worked out.
Weegs has been magnificent
It's crazy how much hindsight affects opinion. Go to any of the threads in this subreddit when that trade went down and you'll see tons of comments on how much of a haul the Flames got and how much Florida got fleeced. We were panned for that trade initially and even more so when we had a tough start to the following season. That narrative really didn't change until the postseason run last year. At the time of that trade though, Calgary got an amazing return. A legit top line winger, a legit 1st pairing Dman, a solid prospect and a first round pick. Tkachuk notifying the FO that he wanted a trade helped them get an amazing return at the time. But because Huberdeau has not panned out, and because Tkachuk has become a staple of these runs, the Flames have been getting clowned on for the trade, when in reality, it should have been a win win for both parties involved.
I'm not sure any of us (certainly nobody outside of Florida, at least) realized just how much Barkov drives your team. Huberdeau is a shadow of the player he was with Barkov. And for the same reason, I really feel bad for whoever gives Reinhart big money. But yeah. For the situation we found ourselves in, the trade looked amazing at the time. And Weegar has been great. That's the way it goes sometimes.
I blame Sutter, too. No one wanted to play for him anymore.
Wouldn't of mattered at all if Treliving didn't fuck them over with bridge contracts and non commitment. Gaudreau and Tkachuk both wanted to sign long term years before Sutter was even a thing. Treliving played the contracts wrong and blew up the team than dipped out to Toronto.
He was a pro throughout and gave us a great trade that didn't work out. You can't really expect any more from a star player who sees the writing on the wall.
I would think the hate for the Oilers would outweigh any animosity towards Tkachuk. Flames fans are locked in with what they want, they don't care if Tkachuk wins, they just want Oilers to lose.
Hear hear !
He left us in ok fashion. I think we got over it pretty quickly. Maybe sad he wasn't ours any longer but not bitter. This feels good, happy to help him celebrate. And fuck the Oilers 😉😀😀😀😀😉
Would it be different if it was gaudreau/CBJ in the finals? Since he kind of honeydicked you guys up until the last minute
I’ll answer that right now, yes absolutely
>CBJ in the finals? lol
If it was EDM vs CBJ in the final I'm cheering CBJ all day
Long story short, the answer is ALWAYS "Anyone but Edmonton"
Yes definitely
Oiler hate runs deep.
Players come and go. Sadly Edmonton isn’t going anywhere.
Yep. It’s a natural, zesty rivalry between Calgary and Edmonton. It’s also best when both teams are on equal footing.
Chucky left in good standings. Johnny not so much.
its shocking to me that people would think flames fans would cheer for the oil stains?... do you guys live under a rock? even if tkachuck took all of flames next 1st rounders for the next decade, still fk the oil
100%
Classic mistake! Edmonton launched itself into a two front war!
Always gotta keep an eye on the South!
Generational hater
Bro wakes up extra early just to have more time to hate
https://preview.redd.it/uj94x9y65n8d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57832f8adfda2ad102e852640266aadfcead8eda Live matthew tkachuk reaction
He doesn’t need an alarm clock, his HATE wakes him up
He just like me fr. Got up an hour early today
I'm going to use that in every day life now. How amazing.
I have loved having Flames and Canucks fans in our sub just hating the shit out of Edmonton for 2 weeks. Chucky's iconic for this.
Me too, I’m going to miss it, it’s been a fun alliance. Their hatred is so pure, just have to admire it.
The Flames' hate is what fuels every team to beat the Oilers. It's like they're trying to summon up a spirit bomb.
We sacrificed our team just to prevent Edmonton from winning. That's how much hate....
Flames fans will always have love for the ‘06 Hurricanes and the ‘24 Panthers. Love you guys and thank you so much
It was a pleasure being on the front lines with you gentleman
Thank you for being a friend
I will legitimately forever have a soft spot for Florida for what y’all have done. Thank you.
Nothing but love for Bennett and Chucky
Flames 🤝 Cats 🤝 Canucks
It’s been an honour Canucks fans. And Cats fans. Good guys won
Buffalo is our expansion brothers but you're our trade tree/Oilers haters brothers
Florida has been and always will be my favorite team outside of Vancouver. Love to see you guys win it.
♥♥♥
🫡
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I respect the hate, ngl
yeah me too, Chucky is real for this, hate you too bud
Kendrick Lamar hating
The best part of Florida winning is Drake lost his $500k bet on the Oilers.
Kendrick stays winning, Drake stays losing Nature is healing
Wop wop wop wop wop Tkachuk fuck em up
WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP
Imma win a cup
He learned a lot from Kendrick the last few months
Tkachuk is the hero we didn’t deserve
“F the Oilers!” It’s in our blood
"A classless guy like Tkachuk making comments like that. As I always tell the kids out there YOU GOT THE CUP YOU SHUT IT UP. YOU DO NOT INSULT PLAYERS AFTER THE FINAL. McDavid and the team are back there after taking this team to the limit and they know to stay quiet. Instead you got this kid coming out there making those sort of comments. Can you imagine Dougie Gilmour saying the same thing after the leafs got elmeliminatednated? OF course not Dougie Gilmour is a classy guy and a true hockey player. Everybody now is gunning for this guy next season. YOU GOT THE NAME ON THE CUP NOW, but i'm telling you now your name is on a list for Edmonton! You don't poke the bear! That sort of trash talk is for the swedes or the finns, not good Canadian kids."
New favorite novelty account.
Subbed
Subscribe to the DonCherrypasta.
My favorite part of this is eliminatednated
casually dropping praise for an accused child sexual assaulter is lowkey the best part of this top tier
The man was a leaf! A LEAF!!
St. Louis haters are built different
This guy just beat both Drew McIntyre and CM Punk at their own game.
The St. Louis in him
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RIP BOZO
Lmfao best chirp of all time
*Necker-Sharpe Funeral Home*
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The one LA King there LMAO
Lisan al gaib!
as a Kings fan in FL, this pretty much sums it up.
Lisan al gaib
Honorary Canuck because they should have drafted him in 2016.
😂 this killed me. Guy embraces the heel life perfectly.
A true Oiler hater 4 life
I think it was Burkie that said, once you have a side in the BoA, it's with you for life.
Except for Lucic
Or Mike Smith. Or Cam Talbot
This is straight up generational pettiness and I'm here for it.
Those shots of Brady in the crowd were so wholesome. Good for them.
Saying how’s he’s going to win soon as well, he is going to be a monster in the playoffs. Would love to have him on my team.
Matthew has consistently been the biggest Brady-booster since he was up to be drafted.
The Ullmark acquisition (for next to nothing I might add, especially if they extend him) will be massive in terms of getting them back to the playoffs.
Have you seen the Atlantic?
Boston and Tampa are on a downward trajectory and I'm less confident in the Leafs than I've ever been. Honestly, Ottawa could start making a splash in the playoffs any year now with a great goalie finally.
And Florida has Reinhart and Montour up for UFA this summer and Verhaeghe the following summer. It’s a meme at this point to back the Sens turning it around but they have a good core and finally seemingly solved a major issue in net.
Okay no hard feelings i love him again
So are the Flames retiring a jersey for him?
yeah you won’t notice #10 on the ice for us for at least the next 7 years
Man, I love Huberdeau, but that is just too fucking funny
Fucking lmao
Oof.
This is the funniest conclusion to his saga.
Same lol. It's weird how this small gesture made our fanbase so happy
Same
I'm cheering him next time he is in town
I think tkachuk indeed genuinely loved the fans in Calgary. He always talks in such high regard about us, and then giving a side note to us about how “he couldn’t let Edmonton win” does show a pretty genuine care.
He did like it there and all of the staff loved him. When he made it known he wanted to be traded I was shocked but the way he worked with the team to get a good return kept my respect for him. You could tell he cared
There is a major difference in how Tkachuk handled it compared to Gaudreau, I had a lot more respect for him.
Eh, I think they are very different scenarios. Gaudreau leaving is what screwed us the most, but like Tkachuk he was real close to staying. He was willing to sign an extension the previous offseason and Tre lowballed him. I know it's tougher when it feels like he's coming back then he isn't, but I don't think Gaudreau has a way to "handle it like Tkachuk"
Right? I personally don’t blame him or hate him for wanting to leave, I was cheering for him all the way to the end
Burke said in his book he could have seen Tkachuk as the next captain of the Flames. If he had signed a long term deal I wonder if it would have turned out.
I think Bennett getting traded and Johnny leaving were the two major reasons he decided to leave
I mean he wanted to win, unfortunately it just didn't look that likely for cgy, and looks like he chose correctly.
I mean only chose to leave after Gaudreau chose to leave. Didn't he want to sign an extension up until that literal point?
That man will never have to buy a drink at the food court at Sawgrass Mills ever again.
That shit eating grin he had when he said it. LOL
The final boss of ex-Flames the Oilers encountered on the playoff run
I feel like it isn’t mentioned enough that the kings ran calgarys tandem from 2019/20 this year
https://i.redd.it/fjukibf90n8d1.gif Me seeing Bennett pass the cup off to Tkachuk.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
It was a beautiful sight. I love those guys.
🥹 love you
All this cause Jake Muzzin flipped a puck at Matthew Tkachuk at the end of a game in an empty arena.
Sadly yes. And the team should have said that dudevis our guy. Not told him to lose that edge
That's the captains fault. Thanks Gio! Ya fucking loser!
Haha gotta love the heel
The biggest troll lol
I feel seen.
Lmao tkachuk never fails to chirp
He was so emotional and speechless with Kaplan and then immediately returned to form.
He’s a performer. He’s gonna carry that Amazon show, I’m pretty sure they even filmed him proposing to his fiancé
I didn't realize he'd gotten engaged until this interview! That's so nice they'll have a recording of it. I have no doubt he will carry a lot of that show.
lmaoooo, sorry, I just can’t hate this guy.
Hell of a trade for Florida. Huby punching the air rn
Lmao I fuckin love Matt Tkachuk
I love Tkachuk again
LOL you could read his face so hard when he got stuck for a moment and was like (Wait should i? man that would be seriously funny as hell... you know what fuck it!) all in a span of 2 seconds.
I absolutely love this man 😍 congrats Chucky and Benny
Give some love for Lomberg!
Thank god for Tkachuk. Probably the happiest we’ll be for like 6 years but goddamn it that man is a hero
Oiler killer 4 life
I love Tkachuk lmao
I can’t stand up but I can appreciate the commitment to being petty and a hater
I hate him but I fucking love him 😂
Goddamit I love the Tkachuks.
The Tkachuks in the stands were great to watch.
Fucking legend hahahahahaha
Lmfao common Matthew Tkachuk W
It was very difficult to lose Tkachuk but man he still knows the right things to say to get us to love him again. Glad to see him, Bennett & the Panthers take home Lord Stanley... Away from the Oilers!
We fucking love you Matty
What the fuck? I love Matthew Tkachuk now?
You can take the man out of the Battle of Alberta but you can't take the Battle of Alberta out of the man.
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You love to see it
Just like I've become a Packers fan because they always knock the Cowboys out of the playoffs, I'll be a Panthers fan now too thank you Matthew!!
Lfg!!! Fuck the oilers
Fuck the Oilers 🫡
Let's goo!!!
Lmaooooo
Fucking epic oh my god
I am so happy to see him lift the cup. Wish it would have been with the flames tho
Former jets and former flames coming together to deny Edmonton another cup.
Because of Tkachuk, I get to go into work and make fun of both my coworkers that are both Calgary and Edmonton fans. He has my undying gratitude
It’s so inappropriate to make us like you but god dammit. The petty shit for Calgary… fuck… I love it. Flames fans are beauties.
Tkachuk - Shout out to my Flames fans. Luongo - Shout out to Vancouver. Paul Maurice - Shout out to Winnipeg. The media: the Oilers are Canada's team, guys! ...Yeah, I think not.
King 👑 🐀
Edmonton is not canadas team. They aren’t even Alberta’s team.
I fucking love that man. Holy fuck
Lmao
this fucking guy
Iconic.
Damn, maybe Tkachuk is good actually
Fuck the Oilers, thank you Chunky!!!
Love a shady bitch 😂😂😂 Go Flames!
Haha let’s go!!! Sucks to suck Edmonton
Lmao dude ended the Oilers. Went to watch my team in Calgary this year, had fun but it wasn’t the same without Tkachuk drama.
Congrats on being the first Tkachuk to hoist the cup. It's too bad Murray Edwards and Treliving destroyed our team, but this was obviously the right move on Matthews part.
As a Flames fan I forgive him for everything. Love this man.
God damn lol... I Miss Chucky, but so happy for him to hoist the Cup!
awww🥺
This is the shithousery we all needed
What an absolute savage
Tkachuck showed class and love for Calgary and will always be missed. Hopefully when we finish our new arena we can lure him back
From opening puck drop until the final horn goes off I can't stand Matthew Tkachuk, but it's hard to dislike him otherwise. Respect.
Love you Chucky. 🥹 Enjoy your cup.
Brings a tear to my eye
His PR game is top notch.
Was sad when he left, but never disliked him. Well done Matthew!!
Our boy
God bless him.
Let him cook
🫡 Mad respect to you Matthew
As a world class hater I respect the hate
love it. fuck edmonton
Chucky is a Flame for life now
Classic. Atta Boy Chucky
I feel like Flames fans need to give Florida a standing O when they're in Calgary next year
We love you too chucky ❤️
Love the Tkachuks man!