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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Nah.
Brian Elliot stat line 5 years previous:
Starts - 164
Wins - 104
Loss - 46
GAA - 2.01 (2.55 with Flames)
SV% - 0.925 (0.910 with Flames)
Chad Johnson stat line 3 years previous:
Starts - 80
Wins - 47
Loss - 28
GAA - 2.43 (2.59 with Flames)
SV% - 0.915 (0.910 with Flames)
He goes out and snags two guys with sparkling recent numbers for a 2nd round pick and $4.2 million of cap space when the team was in a total cap crunch because of contracts he didn't even sign (Wideman, Smid, Stajan). It was wizardry at it's finest.
If they under performed that's on the players, not Treliving.
He didn't go out and get a couple scrubs and hope they would perform. He went out and got top performers.
...and not only that, despite their drop in numbers, the Flames still made huge improvements in most areas, including a 17 point standings gain and a playoff spot, so I wouldn't characterize what happened this season as Tre "screwing up the goaltending", nor should anyone.
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He got two guys with good stats for a good price. He still had to hope one could carry the load as a starter, where neither previously had been so.
Calculated risk, but still a risk.
if rumors are true, he could had bishop.
So he went for the low acquisition cost option and hoped for the best.
Considering how the season ended, i'd say his risk failed. Imaging what could have been if he made a different choice.