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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
But you said he was great, I am assuming that would put him in the top 3 GM’s in the league at RFA signings.
When you look around the league I think Chevaldayoff is definitely better with Connor, Scheifele, Ehlers and Hellebuyck signed to better RFA contracts.
Jim Benning has an impressive record with Horvat and Boeser signed to very impressive contracts.
Yzerman was great with Kucherov, Johnson, Killorn and Hedman signed to very good deals.
Chiarelli clearly did well with his RFA contract to Draisaitl
Joe Sakic is also in the great category with MacKinnon and Landeskog, Compher and Girard
Poile was great with Forsberg, Arvidsson, Jarnkrok, Josi, Ekholm and Ellis
The Pietranangelo contract probably makes Armstrong great, with the Schwartz contract being good as well
Tallon was great with Hubredeau, Barkov, Trochek, Vatrano, Matheson
I would personally put at least 7 of those GMs above Treliving and I suspect there are more. I would guess Treliving is somewhere between a high of 9th best in his time to a low of 17th as I did not go through every team but just the ones I was pretty sure were better than BT, which has beat would put him above average but definitely not great. If he is the 9th best GM at RFA signings, his greatness would be akin to calling the 120th highest scoring forward in the league as “great”.
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You're certainly welcome to your opinion. In fact I started this whole thing off saying I get that some don't want him as the architect of the change that is coming.
But yeah I'd say he's great, you don't have to.
But using Draisaitl is an interesting one as that contract was a massive over pay and partially responsible for the boost in contract values to RFAs ever since.