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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The team he built placed first in the Conference for the first time since the SC Championship team, won the Division for the first time since 2006, and registered the second-highest point-total in the history of the franchise.
Yeah, Treliving still has a lot of work to do, but let's at least be honest about his record. If he wins this round—as it appears he will—it will be on merit.
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A bunch of guys had a career(or close to it) year at the same time. Then they crapped the bed in the playoffs. That isn't something to be happy about. Sure they won their division and had a great point total...that just doesn't really matter unless there's more success to follow in the playoffs.
Ask someone who won the cup in some random year. Then ask them who had the highest point total in the west that year. I would rather be a team that just gets in and wins the cup than a team that dominates the regular season and is out first round.
If you do want to just cherry pick the one year the Flames did well as a reason to pick him then that should have been done for every one of these. Brodie was picked as the best #7 guy over great players.
I like Treliving but what has he accomplished? The team is no where close to being a contender and isn't in position to do a proper rebuild. He's made a couple of good trades, some bad trades, some terrible signings and some decent signings. Nothing really great and the team is still in limbo.
I guess winning doesn't really matter.