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Originally Posted by Fan in Exile
Treliving on the balance has done a good job but why has he earned your trust on goaltending? Name one good move so far. His moves have been defensible at best. He has missed out on several better options for the team which would have cost less as a sum total. I can tolerate Smith on this deal but nothing to do cartwheels over. I will be disappointed if Johnson is back because one of the silver lings here is Rittich or Gillies emerging as a back-up. Our over-ripening philosophy just caused us to basically lose Hickey for nothing.
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He's earned my trust by making more good moves (IMO) than bad. AND he knows the incoming guy well. I wouldn't say that Elliott/Johnson was a bad combo, but both happened to struggle at points in the year. Having said that, the Flames struggled as a team for the first couple of months under GG. Until the famous beer trip indeed.
I don't see even a Smith/Johnson tandem as bad for Rittich or Gillies. Both need time and development yet IMO, so a second stopgap year where either or both get to play "some" is fine by me (likely due to injury).