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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Not sure if this has been mentioned.
I see a lot of people mentioning Treliving potentially taking blame or heat for trading picks, meaning that he thought we were a contender and he shouldn't have traded them if we weren't.
But who says that has to payoff right now? Is our roster going to be vastly different next year? Maybe trading the picks was done because the move could payoff over several seasons, not just this year, and he knew that if he waited that the opportunity to improve our team would be gone. It's not like he could guarantee that the same, or even similar, players with similar contracts would be available at the price he wanted to pay when we are contenders.
Had he been trading for pending UFAs and late season rentals like Sutter always did and we still failed then I get it.
Hopefully worst case scenario is he traded a pick outside the top 10 and he knew there was a chance that he wasn't trading the 25th overall pick but thought that the trades still made sense because they could payoff over multiple seasons, even if we didn't contend this year.
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And even if that were true, if the team doesnt make the playoffs this year and next year's roster isnt significantly different then whats the point of trading the 1st?
I mean, if we dont make the playoffs this year and dont change anything, thats like doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result....whats that the definition of again?
