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Originally Posted by Mike F
So, listening to a wide range of opinions on the Carlyle firing, and the consensus seems to be that, for all of the flaws Carlyle had and taking into account his responsibility for the Leafs' failures, there is still something rotten at the core of the team that no coaching change will address.
Recently, it has been brought up a couple of times that the rotten core can, by and large, be traced back to Burke, who should be shouldering as much blame today as Carlyle and the players.
Now obviously Burke is not Calgary's GM, but he was in charge of hiring Treliving and stated during the search that he was looking for a guy who saw team building the same way he did.
Does the fact that the last team Burke created continues to underperform worry anyone else? Hiller is obviously a solid pick up, but the other pieces brough in by this regime, being Bollig, Raymond (recently), and Engelland, have not exactly knocked it out of the park.
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Seriously what did people expect from Bollig, Engelland, and Raymond? They were signed as fillers to provide toughness to a small team and to create competition for youngsters. Did you expect them to become stars? None of their contracts limit the Flames ability to take on contracts or be active in the market, if anything the contracts help to get to the cap floor.
All 3 acquisitions had zero to no acquisition cost. They were low risk and low reward.