I don't believe you evaluate a GM by going down the list of moves and try to pick each as good or bad. A GM should have a vision of how the team will become a contender. And then a plan for getting there. Evaluate him against these.
I find Treliving's vision for the team to be very opaque but near as I can tell, it is to create a contender while Gaudreau, Monahan and Giordano are on their current contracts. As for his execution plan, its relatively obvious. He was happy with his prospect pool, so he was using draft picks as currency to improve the roster.
And presumably he thought he hired the right coach to take them there.
Is this the right vision? Maybe but I would contend that he could have waited longer before banking on this being a championship core.
As for the execution plan, well I guess the proof is in the results.
Frankly I think he has done a substandard job unless you believe the team is better than its results indicate and are just undone by inexperience and bad luck.
As for the Hamonic and Lazar deals, those were just bad trades IMO no matter the circumstances. He overpaid twice.
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