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Originally Posted by dammage79
Treliving: Didnt get his vision done in the offseason. I fully believe he knows what's wrong, but his hands are tied because he can't find a dance partner right now. Hes not the type to overpay for a quick fix. Of all the GMs I've followed before, Brad Treliving is as pragmatic as they come. Ultimately very fault this team has is on his plate, he'd tell you that himself. What's frustrating for me as a fan is hes not going to pull trigger like Daryll did at the height of his team unravelling, hes going to go through his process and find a way to get it done.
Overall: this roster is stuck in ther heads. They're at that point where they can't fight their way out of a paper bag. There's no one thing causing them all this strife, it's a total package of suck.
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I'm with you for most part. Treliving tried to sell high on a guy like Janko but got shut down. Those chiding him for not getting the deals done with Toronto and Minnesota, have zero idea how many other deals by GMs week over week fall apart like that. So Treliving understands his weaknesses on the team and has tried to change that second line into providing a legit alternative to the top line
However, it won't be like Sutter pulling deals out of nowhere, it's because there is a very tight cap to negotiate, which ties hands a lot further.
And you have a Brodie, Hamonic, and Bennett, all rumored to be on the block at some point over the past year, on ltir and unavailable to properly trade tonight even if you wanted to.
I've made clear the tactical and style play that the Flames aren't employing this year, but those failures and the confidence zapping reaults have sent the roster as a whole into an alarming low, where, no matter the squeezing of the stick, nothing is going the right way and then questioning and over thinking every shift as a result.
The lazy analysis such as "no effort or don't give a ####" is patently false, but the team is meek and humbled and they feel every good thing they scratch and claw shift over shift to do seems so hard to get right and then is simply undone by a half second of bad decision making and a tinge of bad luck, and that builds game over game. It's not a self pity thing, but extremely frustrating and has swelled into 6 games of that helpless feeling.