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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Team makes shockingly early playoff exit after strong season, with holes exposed against a similarly inexperienced younger team.
Treliving: Aside from a nixed trade, absolutely no reaction whatsoever, stays the course.
Let them grow through it, sure. But the team needs some tweaking too.
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Not really fair. Treliving clearly had a play to improve the roster but it got nixed by a player's NTC.
The lack of plan B so far is troubling, but given how dynamic the market is, with teams needs being updated on the fly in real time, not entirely his fault either.
Unfortunately, trying is one thing, but if he's left himself in a spot where the market for Brodie, Frolik no longer exists, and there are no real targets to bring in players to improve the team, then the roster is basically the same as last year (minus smith, Hathaway). I am not overly excited about that either, as I expect regression from guys that had career years, but at the same time, what kind of growth can we expect from Tkachuk, dube, Jankowski, valimaki, Andersson, and how much better is the goalie situation with Talbot vs smith.