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Originally Posted by VilleN
Having Jarome Iginla helped significantly. Sutter's best move as GM was bringing in Kiprusoff... which is better than anything Tre has done.
Despite that, I think when you look at their bodies of work Tre comes out on top, mainly on the strength of drafting and RFA signing.
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The last three of Tre's drafts can't even be fully evaluated yet. Valimaki could be nothing. Dube could be nothing. Pelletier could be nothing. There isn't a lot of help coming that I can see, nothing substantially greater than an average team imo. 2014 and 2015 were bad with the exception of Andersson I don't see any decent players. 2016 was really good. Give the scouts credit... but are we really giving Treliving the nod because Edmonton and Vancouver messed up? No Tkachuk and BT is probably fired by now. His RFA signings are great but negated by his UFA signings. There is 8m in dead space on the roster right now. 10% of the cap, it's pretty significant. Not even including Bennett and Janko in the dead money conversation but they aren't helping. How can you give Tre the nod thanks to decent drafts that are difficult to evaluate right now mostly and good RFA signings that were wasted? How many millions did he save on those great deals? More than the 8-10m in dead space on the roster currently? I doubt it.