[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

Haha.

First off, he couldn't go out and spend valuable assets to get a top notch #4 defenseman because they'd just lose that player in the expansion draft. Bye bye acquisition assets, and bye bye #4 Dman. So either way we'd still be looking for a good #4 Dman. Finding a pending UFA like Stone, who wants to be in Calgary so we can actually wait to sign until after expansion was a near stroke of genius by Treliving. Especially with the way he fit the roster like a glove on the 2nd pairing with Brodie.

Secondly, he's been hot after a goalie ever since the end of the 2014/15 season, and that was despite Hiller and Ramo having decent years that season. He was rumored to be in on Jones and Talbot that off season, and later that season he was rumored to be in on Murray, but Murray soon got called up to the Pens with the MAF injury and that was that. Also, in regards to Jones and Talbot, he let them go when Dougie Hamilton was made available which makes sense. Better take the 21 year old 40+ point stud RHD you know you can get instead of waiting around to see if you can still land one of the goalies and risk ending up with neither.

He was also hot after Bishop, but supposedly dropped that when it was clear the price was too high not only to acquire him, but also to extend him. So instead he went out and got 2 of the top 5 save percentage leaders from last season to platoon in net, which I don't remember anyone complaining about too much when it happened. Even then there was still rumors of him flipping Elliott + for Bishop.

As for the top line right winger, which top line RW did he miss out on in the last calendar year? I don't recall one being traded, and besides Okposo there really wasn't one available as a UFA last summer. Do you really doubt that BT hasn't turned over every rock and shaken every tree the NHL has to find one?

I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying here, but after the draft, and after some salaries come off the books, he has no excuses left to not address these needs in SOME SORT of meaningful way. No more half measures. Go get a guy, especially in goal.