[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

People are significantly overplaying the Treliving comments in his interview with Mackenzie. Treliving didn't volunteer that on his own, he didn't offer it up. Mackenzie asked him a question, at the end of a very positive interview, that discussed - extensively - why the Flames were a top team. To finish the interview, Mackenzie asked the question 'what keeps you up at night?' to balance the interview.

Treliving could not answer with 'nothing, we're good'. That would have been stupid and arrogant. What he did was the right thing... he thought about it, and the came up with what he believed to be the weakest part of the team overall: goalscoring.

He did not say 'our lack of goalscoring keeps me up at night' as some people like to spin it. Anyway...

It may not have been the Mackenzie interview but...

SN: Do you have enough scoring? Or will better goaltending and defence mean you won’t need as many goals?

Treliving: Part B, you hope. If there’s one thing that keeps me up at night it is, are we going to get enough scoring. That’s what everybody talks about. The encouraging thing for me is, we’re not coming off a year where six guys had career years. If anything, we had guys under (achieve). That gives me some comfort. But you’re always worried about it. Whoever scores the most goals wins. That’s still how they keep track.
Do we have enough? We’ll see. We’ll see.