I like Tre, he's a good guy and a decent GM but I do think certain qualities people talk about get a little overblown. This notion and the general news around the team is that "Tre is always on the phone!! He's always trying to make this club better. He's in on every trade! The annual draft day hiest!"
In the money management business, Tre is a very very active manager who's delivering average (market) or below market returns.
If we take out some serious key pieces that were put in place by previous management teams like Gio, Brodie, Backlund, Monahan, Johnny and Janko, we aren't really left with earth shattering stuff. Sure we have good players like Chucky, Lindholm and Anderson but not much else.
We have gone through a LOT of goalies, how many coaches, how many PTO's, how many buyout's, how many UFA signing busts, how many 6/7 D guys and how many picks traded for them?
We even had Burke as some "Elite Hockey Executive" as a mentor to Tre to avoid a ton of mistakes and where are we come 6 years later?? In a very tight dog fight for making the playoffs and not really scaring anybody come playoff time if we make it.
We will see what happens but I expected more from this club.
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