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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
You are getting too literal here.
Treliving inherited Backlund, Gaudreau, Monahan, Giordano, Brodie, 2014 #4OA, Kulak, Jankowski, Ferland, Baertschi, Granlund, Hudler, Gillies, Poirier, Klimchuk. Tod Button does deserve more credit for drafting these guys but that doesn't change the fact that Treliving was not starting with a team devoid of talent, particularily young up-and-comers. He also inherited a lot of cap space from Feaster which is not something a next GM would be inheriting from Treliving right now.
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I guess my point is whatever Treliving did inherit very little of it had anything to do with Feaster. Backlund, Gio, Brodie, Ferland are from Sutter. Monahan was an obvious selection at 6. Gaudreau found by Button. Jankowski found by Weisbrod. I guess he was able to provide a 4th overall pick by being terrible. The rest of those guys are pretty insignificant. I guess you can argue letting people do their jobs makes him a good GM but in that case you could hire a monkey and he could let people do their jobs. Don't think he really had a choice because he just didn't know the game well enough.