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Originally Posted by SeanCharles
Brouwer and Raymond have been the two contracts I hated the most under Treliving and it was instant hate. I kinda hated Engelland at first but he won me over, I knew nothing about him at the time so it was an uninformed hate.
The other two I knew would never work out unfortunately but no GM is perfect.
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Funny I see Bouma as the biggest screw up.
The Flames under Treliving looked like a rebuild that needed to find good people to fill out the team and get them to the cap floor at the time. Adding Engelland, Hiller and Raymond made sense. They're weren't huge in term or dollars and they fit what they were trying to limp along doing.
Engelland turned out way better than just a locker room guy, Hiller was good for one year. Raymond did a face plant. But they all made sense.
Brouwer was a mistake but it made sense when you think of the lack of RWs and the fact that they wanted to add to the room and experience. If the Flames didn't give him 4 years $18M I'm guessing some other team would have been pretty close.
The Bouma over pay off of a career year was a head scratcher. Made my skin crawl that day. He got "Backlunded"