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Originally Posted by Itse
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.
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The Hamilton trade was just fine. He cost a first, but you'd draft him at number 15 any day of the week. The 15th turned into Senyshyn, but the other players around him aside from Barzal and the much later Boeser pick aren't any screaming success stories) Engelland was a Treliving UFA signing that, while maybe a little too pricey, was overall a positive. Hudler for Tyler Parsons seems to be a good move.