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Originally Posted by transplant99
Building teams normally takes time...lots of time. The Flames have been fortunate in that several of their young guys have been able to step in within a year or two of being drafted. Though its changed somewhat, the normal course of development sees most guys not make the NHL for 3 or 4 years (some even longer). Much like Jankowski. It's just the nature of the beast.
He (Treliving) will also make some mistakes along the way like every single other GM in the history of the game. It's part of the process, particularly a first time GM. It's fine to criticize those mistakes and even call for accountability and to correct them, but to expect a guy to come in and have a SC contender within 4 years from what he was handed when he got here is ridiculous. And as timbit points out...it could have been much worse. Feaster was great in the draft, but the other duties of his office lacked in a pretty big way.
I get that patience is not what anyone wants to hear in regards to this club, and in this age of instantaneous everything even more so. That simply is not realistic though.
Stay the course and see where things are at after next season with Tre.
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He inherited a team that finished 5 games under. 500 and was a playoff team in his first season. He turned that team into a non-playoff team, then a team that barely squeaked in last year and now an 11th place team.
In the process of taking a bubble team and turning it into a bubble team he traded a 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th round picks.
He did manage to receive a 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th round picks.
So net he gave up a 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd to turn a bubble team into a bubble team.