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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
What happened is that Brian Burke was the interim GM during the season (he hired Treliving in May - Treliving was at draft). While GM, Burke led the scouting meeting in December and as every GM does instructed the scouts on the type of player he wants.
After Feaster’s imperative to get high IQ, skilled players regardless of size, Burke wanted bigger, truculent players added to the system.
I’m not an anti Burke guy but he wanted bigger players and if you look at 2014 draft that’s what the scouts and Button delivered. Treliving had his own ideas about the types of players he covets and you see it in the subsequent drafts.
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Young talented players can be a lot harder to acquire over bigger truculent players. I am glad we have BT injecting lots of skilled guys into the system. The current Flames remind me a lot of those old skilled Detroit teams. So much fun to watch and can pretty much score anywhere. Not sure our bottom lines are where we want them, but if we can a inject a bit more skill on those 2 lines, I think we could be even stronger.