I've never been a huge fan (or a hater) of Treliving, and I've many times said he's gotten way too much premature praise (and hatred) on this board. All that said, building a team that finishes 2nd in the league should give him way more leash than this questionable trade will shorten it.
...that said, he still hasn't addressed the fact that we currently do not have the cap space to sign all of Tkachuk, Rittich, Bennett and Mangiapane. The clock is ticking as other teams are spending their cap space and he just traded away our big buyout candidate.
Tkachuk is going to be what, 6.5-7.5? Bennett 2.5, Rittich 2.5, Mangiapane 750 or so.
That's something like 12.5-13.5M, plus about 1-1.5M of breathing space... We currently have about 10M in cap space, so we seem to be something like 3.5-5M short. How he navigates out of that is going to define our offseason, not this trade.
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