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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I think it would be rather foolish to get rid of Treliving after this season. But I do wonder if a more patient President to set some Framework for him to work in would help.
The Flames have appeared to fall into the same trap that most Canadian teams do. They get over excited at signs of progression and tend to jump the gun trying to accelerate the rebuild.
They parted with really good assets to land Dougie Hamilton, although at least they did it when the value of those was 100% certain. At the end of the day, it's a good trade, but I personally don't know if that move launched the team as far forward as they thought.
In the case of the Hamonic deal, they traded futures with undetermined value for right now help. Today this deal has not worked out. Maybe not so much because of Hamonic, but more from the larger picture perspective that the team didn't progress on ice, and not is without the future building blocks to allow it to progress.
The team realistically had one year of "rebuild", than overachieved to get to the playoffs, and has approached each coming season with a go for it mentality. When the on ice results really did not indicate that the team was ready for that mentality.
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If the management did try and fast forward, they should have hired a more experienced coach with a winning pedigree.