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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
I think they fired the wrong guy today. It's like being pulled over for a speeding ticket only to see a BMW blow past going 150 while honking his horn at you.
My eyes look at the GM. I think he is getting a free pass from scrutiny.
The biggest problem with the past season was goaltending. Everyone who watched the team knew it and it has been beaten to death on the Board. The GM failed to address it early in the season when it was clear the offseason moves were not working out. He failed to address it mid-season when the playoffs were still possible.
At the deadline he got good value for Russel, Jones and Hudler, but also saddled the Flames with Backstrom as well.
The Pros I see from Treliving in the past season are:
Hamilton
Brodie Contract
Russell trade
Hudler trade
The Cons
Goaltending
Size up front
Failing to address large contracts from bottom 3-5 forwards, bottom 5-7 defencemen, and top 2 goalies
Do I think that we should fire him? Probably not, but if we're going to fire Hartley for last season, we should first fire the guy who hamstrung the roster.
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Common please. I'm not sure Hartley should be fired either. But let's not get carried away. No one should be getting fired IMO based on the results of last season alone. I think far too many people hit the fast forward button last season after our surprise run to the second round.
This team was not even close to being a contender, despite what we saw two years ago. This team is in the very initial stages of a rebuild, one that thankfully is going well to some surprises in just how far along our young core has come. But we need to stop judging the GM on how they are addressing assets last season and even the one coming up. Some of the problems we have are because we did things a few years back assembling a team that was going to be in a rebuild. There is no need for example to address the large contracts on the bottom 5-7 D men, because they will address themselves in short order, long before this team is truly ready to contend.
In the same breath, I really hope Hartley didn't lose his job because we missed the show last year. Because then he'd be getting blamed for un-realistic expectations on a rebuilding team.
People were so fearful of short term thinking when this rebuild started a few years back. Then you make the playoffs once earlier than expected and all of that goes out the window. Why didn't Hartley get us into the playoffs, why hasn't Treliving figured out what to do with our overpaid bottom pairing D-men, etc....
Patience, folks. It surely can be argued that Hartley didn't deserve what happened today, but Treliving has done nothing but good things thus far, and has not paniced and made any stupid short term moves just to try and "make it" this year. Make no mistake, this was a big move by Treliving today, and if it doesn't work out, he absolutely needs to be judged on this one.