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Old 09-27-2014, 12:06 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by gargamel View Post
It's not fair to jump to conclusions about Treliving or draft picks, but I'm not sure that it's unfair to note that none of the vets that Treliving has brought in have looked any better on the ice than they looked on paper/in previous seasons, and they all looked mediocre to poor on paper/in previous seasons.

As long as their status as new acquisitions doesn't protect them from getting cut, benched or demoted to the AHL though, it doesn't really matter at this point.
Lots of players don't perform well in preseason or early in the season, see iginla when he was with the Flames.
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