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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Some of Treliving's worst moves:
-Trading away Stempniak for a 3rd and flipping that 3rd for Bollig
-Signing Brouwer
-Trading a 2nd for Lazar
-Giving chances to people like Glass and Grossmann at the expense of some of the younger players. This might be Gulutzan's doing.
-Not firing the coaching staff months ago
There's a common denominator with these mistakes; these are all low-skill high-grit players. Now we're getting almost no scoring from the 3rd and 4th lines.
I have faith that Treliving has learned from the obvious.
But a lot of this might be Burke's doing as well.
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Stricltly in regards to "in the expensive of younger players", what young guy has proven themselves to be deserving of a spot so far? Jankowski but he was only sent down for 17 games and while looks like an NHLer, it's not until Sam Bennett had to finally be moved from center, opening up a 3rd line C spot. Kulak behind Bartkowski but that looks like a Gulutzan choice rather than Treliving.
I think the biggest thing that Treliving has continued to struggle with is finding value and production in his bottom 6. Some of it is out of his hands (Bennett continuing to struggle, Jagr's body finally going kaput) and others are bad bets (Glass, maybe Brouwer, Lazar).
There's definitely a lot of major pluses like Hamilton, Frolik and drafting Tkachuk on the top end of things. Treliving is definitely a solid GM. The great ones find those depth players who contribute again and again as you cycle through.