[danny darko]

Originally Posted by bubbsy

To be frank, I blame this GM for entire fall of this year's team result.

A team struggled since the all star break, got their ass kicked in the playoffs. I don't care that you tried but failed due to things like player NtC's, etc.

Flames were a top team at the deadline, the GM does nothing but add a #6/7 dman at the deadline.

Team gets whooped in a laughable manner, and the GM trades Neal for Lucic, and adds Talbot.

What message does that share with the roster??? It's all good enough? We don't actually intend to win anything meaningful, let's just hope for regular season success??

Treliving is kind of an idiot. It's clear he's got zero people management skills whatsoever. I get that he tried to make moves, but there's gotta be plan B's to allow for change for the sake of making change to a group that got their ass kicked.

Management basically telling the team "we're going with you, you'll do it" despite the players realizing the team ain't close to getting it done come crunch time, is equivalent to saying "meh, it's good enough, just get to the playoffs again". Not to mention having your intended trades leaked, so when they don't go thru, you are stuck with players knowing they aren't even wanted here.

The more I write it out, the more I realize that Brad Treliving is a dumb gm. Good riddance, you f'ing suck man. Go make pizza's or something, this isn't a gig for you.

I can completely understand the frustration. With that said, I think the message that Tre was likely hoping to send to this team was that he believes in the group of players that we have. After seeing what they accomplished in the regular season last year, he wanted to give them a shot at redemption. I don't think that giving a roster that finished second overall an opportunity to improve on that means that he is settling for mediocrity. Now with the rumors swirling that he is looking to shake things up, it leads me to believe that he's saying "time's up". In my opinion, what he does with the rest of this season will be a more important body of work to judge than him not blowing up a team that finished at the top of the west.