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Originally Posted by Pointman
The point is not so much about the return per we. But rather about this trade sealing the fact that Treliving went after wrong guy to build his defense around. It took him three good years to comprehend that one can't win with Hamilton as key player. And right after that he went after two highly touted youngsters from losing organization who apparently were not viewed as irreplaceable core by that organization. Which makes one doubt whether this time Treliving has got the right guys to win with or he misevaluate Lindholm and Hanifin as well.
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Others have given you plenty of responses to your post, so I won't bother with that, but the bolded isn't correct. Talk of Treliving trying to move Hamilton has been going on for over a year and a half, so it's not 3 years, it's a year and a half before he realized that Dougie wasn't going to be the right guy and wasn't going to progress. You give a 22 year old the benefit of the doubt that he can improve and become something more (as we are doing now with Hanifin), but I think Treliving evaluated Hamilton's competitiveness accurately almost right away. I'm actually pretty confident in Treliving's evaluation skills. Everything that I see as a problem with this team or a positive, he often says the same things.
And he goes after good players that he can actually get. I'm sure he goes after the ones he can't get too, but thankfully he doesn't pay an arm and a leg to get them (Lucic, Hall for Larsson, etc.). As soon as I say that someone will bring up Hamonic, but mark my words, nobody has seen what Hamonic can really add to this club yet. There was a strong period down the stretch where he was extremely effective, but nobody cared because the rest of the team was so awful.
In short, Treliving is the least of this team's problems.