I for one am a Treliving fan and it is fun to be a fan of this team at draft time. He has swung blockbuster deals in 3 of the last 4 drafts and made a trade at all 5 drafts he has been for.
The Flames core is extremely young. He inherited Gaudreau, Monahan, Giordano, Brodie, Backlund who are all core players. To that core he has added Tkachuk, Hamonic, Lindholm, Hanifin. The hope is one last player he inherited (Jankowski) and drafted (Bennett) price to be part of that core.
I do like the look of this team long term if Lindholm, Hanifin, Bennett can take the next step in addition to our 3 forward stars. All of these players are under 25.
When the team made the playoffs he tried to accelerate things by making the Hamilton and Hamonic trade. The Hanifin deal dials back the rebuild a little bit which was the right decision.
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