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“When you do a report card on a GM, there are certain things that you have to look at — draft, trades, free-agent signings, culture, media, community service and corporate support would be the primary ones,” Burke said. “If you look, he’s drafted extremely well. He’s made some marvellous trades. Free-agent signings, he’s made a couple of mistakes but, by and large, added solid players at sensible prices and term.

“I think when you give Brad Treliving a report card, in my mind, he’s at the top of his class of the guys that were hired when he was hired. So he deserves this extension.

“This is a relationship business, and he worked at building sound relationships with the other 29 GMs, the other 30 now with Vegas coming in,” Burke praised. “Right from Day 1, he placed a premium on that. He said, ‘This is the group I have to make deals with, this is the group I have to work with on an hourly basis,’ so he invested an incredible amount of time in relationship-building early on. He knew all the guys, but just establishing relationships.

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