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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
I look at the Giordano contract as one of those you have to do knowing it will likely bite you towards the end of it.
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^^ This. There is no way you could have let Gio walk. There is also no way you let this drag on into the season, it would have been a major distraction.
Though we ended up with a distraction with the 3 headed goalie monster, and now Ortio (last year's AHL MVP) is playing like crap, took Ramo a few months to get his game together and Hiller is a nightmare. To me, thats Trelivings biggest mistake was letting this go as far as it did. I think that killed our season more than anything.
The rest (Raymond, Engelland; I don't mind Bollig, I still get why he's here) I get why he did it, though in retrospect it was 1 year too long - if it were a 2 year deal instead of 3, it would have been a smoother transition. We'll see what the penalty for his mistake was. He inherited 2 of Feaster's cap anchor contracts in Wideman and Jones and 1 of Burke's cap anchors in Matt Stajan. Backlund might have been 1 year too long depending on Jankowski's development, we'll see.
His big wins were obviously Hamilton, and getting picks for Sven/Glencross. The Frolik deal is ok.