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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
A lot of these players in their own ways have contributed to us not being where we need to be. We’re still pay for Mason Raymond by the way so he’s still negatively effecting the team. Hiller ruined our 15-16 season with his .879 sv%. Deciding to keep Bollig cost us Paul Byon whose been unreal for the Canadiens. Shinkaruk cost us a servicable NHLer whose team is currently ahead of us in standings right now. Hamonic and Lazar cost this team a potentially unprotected 1st round lottery pick along with 3 x 2nd round picks. Lack’s performance speaks for itself and Troy Brouwer may be the worst UFA signing in franchise history. That’s a lot of screw ups in a short period of time that doesn’t give me much confidence in upper management going forward.
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The last part of your post was unnecessary hyperbole, but the above has a lot of truth in it. You also left out Elliott, who singlehandedly sank our latest playoff appeareance and also cost us a 2nd round pick. You can argue all you want that it seemed a fine trade at the time, but I'm more of a results oriented guy.
That said there are a lot of successess too. Versteeg was good for his first season, Chiasson had a solid season here, Frolik has been everything we could have hoped for, Smith is finally the goalie we've wanted, Jagr was a good choice, Stone was a good acquisition, Hamilton I think is a very good acquisition even if he's not playing up to his potential right now.
Treliving is an active GM that likes to make moves, and that's going to result in a lot of misses on top of a lot of hits. He also seems to me like a guy that's good at learning from his mistakes. (I kind of expect him to be the kind of guy that does a full analysis of trades after the fact to evaluate what factors should have been considered more etc.)
I do kind of hope the organization gets a coach that's more like Sutter than Gulutzan; someone less of a process guy and more a results guy.