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Originally Posted by fleury
I think you're onto something. Organizational behaviour is very often overlooked these days, but if you actually think about it, being the pops of Boston Pizza tycoon, Treliving has led a pretty privileged life. I'm sure he's used to business dealings and negotiating, etc. The part I question is how does he deal with non-executive people? It seems year in and year out there are problems with players or coaches, and after seeing this, you have to wonder what's going on upstairs. I think Treliving despite the non-winning seasons, is a good exec based on most of his deals, but people person to the "little" guy - completely questionable.
Bennett?
Gaudreau
Neal
Hamilton
Revolving door of coaches
There are people who are task oriented, there are people who are people oriented. Most execs by nature are task oriented on the spectrum, and because of that you get disconnects as the ends justify the means based on results. Again, I don't know if this is the case with Treliving, but there have be an abnormal amounts of seeming disgruntled people around, but I wonder if it's too beneath him to work with the little guy (to put it harshly).
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What's strange to me is that the Peters thing really took him by surprise by all accounts, and yet you have things like Neal tuning out as soon as he came in, Lucic considering quitting after arriving, Bennett constantly getting minimal opportunity and some of the top players no showing this year until he was gone. Plenty of red herrings that signaled that not everything was fine.
Clearly there were issues on the players end even if it was on the down low and yet it wasn't until the stories came out from elsewhere that Treliving took note that he might not have the right guy to run that room.
If there was honest/open communication with the players on the state of affairs then it might not have been so out of left field to Treliving. Seems to me he looks at the W/L columns and the team on paper and does his due diligence when it comes to negotiating a next contract, but you cant help but wonder if management is touching base with the players outside of that and really monitoring for potential personnel issues that might affect the room.
Treliving is 0/2 with coaches and you could argue the team has fallen pretty short of its potential under those guys outside of 2/3 of a regular season, so id say its very much in his interest to be taking the pulse of the team from thst personnel relationship standpoint.
Like I said he needs to be damn sure about promoting Ward officially or the next guy he brings in and I would be taking player input from up and down the lineup about what has been and hasn't been working for the players.
GG was inexperienced and didn't command respect
Peters was a hard ass but with some serious character flaws
Ward while having a fresh approach to things looks like he might have inexperience working against him also, as he's had some questionable in game moments at key times where action was not taken.
Seems like Treliving needs to alter his approach and criteria for hires, as well as factor in the needs of his players in order to find the right fit for this specific group, cause the trying to outsmart every one else with his personal selection approach has backfired on him twice.
Safe to say things have worked out okay with the Carolina trade, but maybe Dougie and Real Deal pull their weight a little more during their time here if they felt their concerns were being taken to heart by the guys steering the ship?
Don't know enough to say for sure but reading between the lines it does appear that there is some sort of culture issue within the organization that is leading to these players that the team spends a lot to acquire mailing it in here.
Or maybe these are just guys with character flaws themselves (hamilton bounced from BOS, Neal moving around half a dozen teams, stories out of the CAR organization about peters) and management isn't picking up on it before bringing them in, in which case that's also a concern about their ability to evaluate their acquisitions beforehand.