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https://www.fanragsports.com/nhl/dre...ame-treliving/

Darren Dreger (grain of salt required):
NHL Insider Darren Dreger was making the radio rounds on Tuesday morning, and on Edmonton’s TSN 1260 he was asked what Treliving will need to prove to get another contract extension eventually.

“Probably not much to the rest of the NHL – maybe a lot to Ken King and Murray Edwards,” began Dreger. “It’s a multi-year deal, so that tells us it’s three or four years. The sense that I got was that he was likely pushing for four years. So in that comes some job security.

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Dreger was asked if there was any fire to the smoke about the relationship – or lack thereof – between Treliving and Burke.

“For me it’s less about the relationship between Brian Burke and Brad Treliving and more about how involved Ken King remains in hockey operations,” said Dreger. “My sense is that the negotiation wasn’t with Brian Burke, it was with Ken King.

“And even though there’s an established market value of what Canadian general managers are earning, for Treliving I’m going to guess it’s somewhere around that $1.75-$2 million mark. I don’t think Ken King and the Flames wanted to pay that, and I think that that was part of the pushback.

“But what was also curious about all of this was how long it took to table the offer. I don’t believe that Treliving actually got an offer – a legitimate offer – until late last week or even as late as the weekend; which is curious again when you’ve got teams like Buffalo sitting there waiting for their general manager to be hired, which will likely be as early as tomorrow, and likely to be Botterill from what we’re told.

“But that’s a dangerous game with somebody like Brad Treliving, who’s highly respected.