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Originally Posted by Red Menace
I love what Treliving has done lately, but he didn't show the best judgement in UFA season last year, with the Engelland, Raymond, and Setoguchi moves all on the poor side to varying degrees. The Hiller singing was good.
I have more faith in BT than I did last year, but am a little worried when we continue to hear chirpings from Burke about getting bigger, which often time leads to signing or trading for terrible hockey players ( like Bollig for example)
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There is nothing wrong with what Treliving did with free agency last year. I'm as big of a Raymond critic as anyone, but when you look back at the position he was in it made total sense. Team predicted to be in lottery contention, not enough NHL bodies in the lineup, and he needed to get to the cap floor. It's not his fault that the Flames far exceeded even the wildest predictions for them and accelerated the rebuild by several years
The Setoguchi was one of those low risk/high reward single year deals so absolutely nothing wrong with it, and if you somehow think Engelland was a bad signing after what he did after Gio went down then there's something wrong with you