[SuperMatt18]

Looked at the picks that Treliving has brought in vs traded in the first 4 rounds.

Picks In
2015 2nd, & 2015 3rd (Glencross - rental)
2015 2nd (Baertschi - trade ask)
2016 2nd, 2016 4th (Hudler - rental)
2016 2nd (Russell - rental)

Picks Out
2014 3rd Round Pick (Bollig - 3 seasons remaining)
2015 1st, 2nd, 2nd (Hamilton - RFA - signed 6 seasons)
2016 2nd (Elliot - 1 season remaining)
2017 3rd (Stone - UFA - signed 3 seasons)
2017 2nd (Lazar - RFA - signed 2 seasons)
2017 3rd (Smith - 2 seasons remaining)
2018 1st , 2018 2nd, 2019 2nd (Hamonic - 3 seasons remaining)

So:

1st Round: -2
2nd round: -2
3rd Round: -1
4th Round: +1

So really it's just the Hamilton and Hamonic trades that caused those deficits but both those players were signed to long term deals, and weren't rentals so we have something to show for it still.

The trades I will say were bad were Bollig, Lazar (don't trade early round picks for 4th liners), and then the fact that we needed to move assets for Elliot and Smith back to back seasons. The Hamonic trade is just "meh" since he was a declining asset and FWD was a bigger area of need.

Treliving does deserve a bit of credit for getting picks for rentals /upcoming UFAs and then trying to turn those into long term assets (Have a gut feeling he tries to turn Ferland into a 1st at the draft).

He can still recoup some 2018/2019 picks in advance of those drafts so that's not really 100% closed off yet either.