I afraid some people don't understand that the time to judge Treliving's UFA signings is at the time they were made, and what he was looking at as far as the team he had and the player he was considering.
At the time the Flames had a total of Glencross, Jones, Bouma, Hudler and maybe Byron as regular proven NHL calibre wingers (I think he'd made his mind up about McGrattan's place by then). He might have thought Sven would make the team as well. Colborne he might put on the wing.
He had 7 NHL games Granlund. One game Gaudreau. No games Jooris and Ferland. He'd seen Ferland struggle in the minors, Jooris had 27 points in 78 AHL games, Johnny was a pint sized 4th round pick college guy. Poirier was hurt, and then they also had guys like Hanowski, Reinhart, etc who were not, and are not NHLers. All of those guys probably you'd guess at 2 years to develop into regulars.
So faced with that he shouldn't have signed a guy who averages something like an 18-20 goal pace at market price to 3 year deal? As well as Bollig and Setoguchi on evern better deals?
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