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Originally Posted by Vinny01
I get that it has been an extremely rough 30 years but in Treliving’s 5 we have had our only other series victory since 2004 and 1989 as well as the best regular season in 30 years. Maybe it is because Feaster and Sutter were so bad (I became a hardcore fan in 2004) I have a lot more rope for Treliving. He traded 3 draft picks for a top young Dman and then still pulled 3 NHL players out of the same draft.
I am a fan of the contracts he got for Brodie, Giordano, Gaudreau, Monahan, Hamilton, Lindholm, Hanifin
There are some errors but in the last 15 years this team has by far the most drafted players, along with an impressive young stable of Dmen and some very talented forwards. He certainly is not perfect but I am still a believer that he should be steering the ship.
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Generally a fan of all his RFA contracts, save the Hanifin one which I think is still very much to be determined. Also not a fan of the Tkachuk deal but his hands were tied by the salary cap.... and uh I think we know whose to blame for that. Also not going to give him much of any credit for the playoff round win. Was his first year and his finger prints were hardly on that team, and lets be honest a lot of that was a fluke. Almost every metric said we shouldn’t be there and the follow up to that year kinda proved that. If anything that year set us back long term because I think it is what gave him the false confidence in this team that led to so many of the impatient ‘win now’ trades. Also don’t love comparing to previous regimes, I prefer to compare to his contemporaries. What I see is a team that had good pieces to build around but due to impatience it is now faced with a major cap problem with a pretty poor prospect base due to trading away too many futures, much like the Sutter years. I actually think the first 5 years of Sutter were much better than our first 5 with Brad now that I look at it, we at least made the playoffs every year. Guess we’ll see what the next few bring.