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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Yeah I think Treliving also has to answer for this. If he's going to keep this coach and ride him to a lottery pick for the Islanders he's the one that should be fielding the difficult questions as this mess is all on him. He hired the coach and he traded away futures to help his guy. It hasn't worked and time is running out. He can hold on with his guy in hopes they roll off 10 straight wins like last season but if that doesn't happen and they continue with the win one lose one, win two, lose two it's going to go down as one of the all time most disastrous Flames seasons.
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From what I can tell, there are no tough questions in Calgary unless they are coming from Burke or ownership. And I truly have no idea what they are thinking about the on ice product with all the new arena noise.
This is a strange team in many ways. Trading away top draft picks to strengthen a playoff bubble team. Taking flyers on other teams castoffs. Hiring a yet to be proven coach.
Either Treliving really believes in these guys or something is brewing. As you point out, if that first rounder becomes a top 5 pick, it will be an absolute disaster.