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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Coaches in the NHL seem to have an immediate impact or not much of one at all. There’s a reason why their tenures tend to be so short.
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I'd never thought of that before, but it certainly seems to be true. Can anyone name an NHL coach that had his biggest impact in his third of fourth season with a team?
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Originally Posted by Bingo
I don't think the team is being overrated, nor do I dislike the systems.
I just think it's tough to win in the NHL. The Flames have a well built team but nobody was calling for a cup or suggesting they were a top two or three team in the NHL. Coming in I saw them as roughly 10th give or take. Their star players are young and with youth you need to learn consistency, you need to learn how to prepare yourself and you need to learn how to win by losing. It takes time.
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Yes, it takes time for a young team to develop. But Treliving sure hasn't been acting like the GM of a young, developing team lately. Do the managers of young, developing teams who aren't yet established playoff teams trade away 3 x 3rds, 4 x 2nds, and a 1st round pick in the space of 18 months? Those are the moves of an established playoff team desperate to make the push to contender, not a young, mediocre team trying to become a playoff team.
Treliving has gambled by trading away a lot of picks in order to speed up the rebuild. If it doesn't work, and this remains a mediocre team, there will be a real price to pay down the line. People can fool themselves by pointing to the odds of any given pick turning into an NHL difference-maker, but that wealth of picks represents a major part of the Flames' future intake of young prospects. This will be a worse team 4-7 years from now without them.