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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'm not one to give Treliving a pass on the UFA contracts that he has signed, it's certainly the part of his repertoire that needs massaging (or nixxing)
But once a mistake has happened I don't tend to dwell on it (trader brain), you just manage it.
If they deem buying out Lucic and replacing him with a young player helps the team you do it. If you don't think that helps you don't. But wallowing on past mistakes doesn't do a whole lot to fix problems.
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Was there really nothing Treliving could’ve done to work with Peters and put Neal in more of a position to succeed? A little foresight when things were starting to go sideways for him may have gone a long way. And who knows, maybe that did happen behind closed doors. But the results speak for themselves.
We never saw this version of Neal last year. And I’m not sure saddling him with marginal players like Bennett and Jankowski was the right way to get his confidence back.
I’m not convinced Treliving and the coaching staff did all they could to prevent this before it got so bad he was only tradeable for the worst contract in the league. Sure, you don’t want to capitulate to sulkers all the time, but you also don’t want to sit back and let the situation between coach and player fester so bad you can only fix it by taking on an objectively worse player and shooting yourself in the foot. Which is exactly how it was handled.