Happy Canada Day!
While the non-hockey world celebrates Canada’s 155th birthday with barbecues and revelry, the hockey world awaits Johnny Gaudreau’s decision: will he re-sign with the Calgary Flames or test the unrestricted free agency waters? Per reports on Friday from a pair of prominent insiders: Gaudreau hasn’t decided yet what he’s going to be doing.
On the latest edition of the 32 Thoughts podcast, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman laid out the situation as it stood at the time of recording:
At this point in time, I don’t think he’s made a decision. I wouldn’t be surprised if over the next week the Flames make it, ‘you know, can we get an idea of where everything is leaning here?