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Originally Posted by Bingo
Sometimes we hear things sure ... but not from Treliving. Guessing the Kadri info was coming out of Toronto, same as the Zucker info from Minny.
He's certainly not one to lay out plans.
What we do know is he's a many irons in the fire guy and uses the word process to much.
I'm guessing he two or three processes running right now.
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Originally Posted by AC
Definitely, Treliving works under the radar for the most part.
We either hear a deal is suddenly imminent (LeBrun), or we find out after it fell through.
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Is this perception or reality though?
There were lots of rumours about hamilton. Mackenzie speculated that Hamilton was available as early as 2016 and lebrun had the outline of the eventual deal a week before the draft.
Mike Smith rumour was out there same timeline. Brouwer. Bishop. Lots of chatter that Brodie has been on the market for weeks. Lebrun was calling the flames adding a depth left handed d like a month or two out from the deadline before they grabbed fantenberg. Talbot signing was basically a foregone conclusion a week before free agency?
I dunno, I feel like the things tre adds are not that mysterious generally because he's plugging holes that are pretty obvious and talking to pretty much everyone in the league.
The amount of info friedman and lebrun seem to get out of Calgary makes me think Tre can be one of the chattier GM's on the league.
I think league wide we don't hear about deals until they happen, but I feel like there has been plenty of forecasting of the moves the flames were going to make before they made them since Tre arrived.
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I get the general frustration with a seemingly lack of change this summer after an incredible regular season followed by embarrassing first round loss.
Of course we could have / should have won both Games 2 and 4. Up late in both, allowed the tying goal (fluke bounce and a late penalty, maybe questionable), and we had Grade A chances in OT in both games (Frolik went shortside not the empty farside, and Backlund couldn't get the puck over Grubauer's pad).
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I mean, there's your area of frustration right there. Offense outside of tkachuk from the second line was an issue all season but particularly down the stretch, and the lack of offense very much burned Calgary against the avs.
I think it's great / obvious Calgary was looking to upgrade that second line both at the deadline and this off-season, but not being able to close a deal when lots of players have moved around is disheartening. It hurt really bad at he deadline and it looks like it will be tough to address this summer.
I'm with you though, I hope tre has more magic up his sleeve.
With what we know is out there / available it's hard to see what that roadmap might be. In previous years, this wasn't the case.