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Originally Posted by ComixZone
At the same point though, Treliving had all summer to address the holes in the roster and failed to do that. He tried, he failed.
Coaches generally don’t change systems, and they definitely don’t after 50 win seasons. How the coach would view it is that the team executed his system for 50 wins, and didn’t execute it properly in the other games - so he has to work harder to get the team to execute it properly more often. I doubt Peters went into the summer believing he had failed from a systems perspective. It’s also why we still have the absolute joke of a PP strategy, the players just didn’t execute it properly.
Now, if you want to question whether his system is junk or not, that’s fair - although, again - it worked for 50 wins.
When Tree came out and said he’s been horse%#^*, he actually has been horse%#^*. This teams issues are more related to roster construction than anything else in my eyes. Too many holes in the roster that required too many players to play above a sustainable level for it to work long term. The fact that we came back with the same flawed roster is on Tree and Tree alone.
The solution is hard though, because one doesn’t simply find top end centres or top end scoring wingers. Especially in a market like Calgary, where you generally have to draft them to get them during the prime years...and I think that’s my biggest point of criticism with Tree. He rushed things. The Hamonic trade, the wasted assets on the likes of Elliott and Lazar...it all adds up, and the end state of this roster is that it is structurally flawed, and on top of that organizational depth is extremely lacking.
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Spot on. The solution is much harder than just a coaching change because we currently have an underperforming roster over a large sample size in an organization that has a very bare prospect pool combined with being in cap hell. And probably the biggest cause of that was trying to rush things. This very clearly comes back to the man who got us here.
Treliving was way premature when he signed Brouwer and then made the Hamonic trade. And then instead of learning from the Brouwer failure (in the very same offseason he had to buy him out even!) he doubled down by signing another ‘gamer vet’ for too much for way too long in Neal. And he’s hardly taken any heat for it, he got an extension! The man should have been fired by now.