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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Treliving misjudged his depth forwards last season, and even hinted at it before the season started by stating that his biggest worry was where the goals were going to come from.
Versteeg getting hurt and Jagr falling flat on his face were the final nails in that coffin that had already been built by a flat lining Bennett, a pulse-less Brouwer and drop offs from Backlund and Frolik.
Flames top 10 scorers from their 2016/17 playoff seasonn:
Gaudreau
Monahan
Backlund
Hamilton
Tkachuk
Frolik
Giordano
Versteeg
Brodie
Bennett
Flames top 10 scorers from last season:
Gaudreau
Monahan
Tkachuk
Backlund
Hamilton
Ferland
Giordano
Brodie
Bennett
Jankowski
So not a lot of changes to the scoring up front from being a playoff team a year earlier, yet they add a full year of Stone, upgrade Elliott to Smith and also add Hamonic, but somehow they drop 10 points in the standings.
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As you say, basically the same team that made the playoffs the prior year, but improved, and yet he miscalculated?
The fact is that the team underperformed and then unraveled. That is on the coaches and the players.
But it doesn't mean he misread the team. It simply means they had a #### year.
The argument that is being made by the 'misread' statement, is that acquiring Hamonic was a bad idea because the team wasn't good enough to make a trade like that.
What I am saying is that that argument is hindsight: the team was definitely good enough to justify that trade, at the time the trade was made.
Yes, things fell apart afterwards. But that doesn't make the assessment wrong.