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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Thanks for the response, truly. I wasn't seeing enough of that. More people running others down and BT seeming to get it by default or something.
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I honestly don't get how you missed these points. They have been mentioned by several posters in all three of the GM ranking threads.
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His RFA contracts are great, I will admit
His trades outside of the Hamilton ones are nothing really special. I guess it was actually pretty good work trading Glencross and Russell. I was fully on board with him then. He lost me after Hamonic.
Draft performance is acceptable so far. The team is young and has graduated it's fair share of players. Imagine what could've been with more picks though?
I guess I'm just not seeing his vision for the team. I dont see how this group elevates to the next tier. We needed a 1C out of our rebuild and to take the next step. We still need a 1G. Our 3 best forwards are wingers and our best player is 36. We are kind of a mess right now. Not what I envisioned in 2014.
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One of the reasons I really like Treliving is because from where I sit he can see the same problems that the rest of us do with this team, and he has been aggressive in trying to correct them. I think one interpretation of this is that he has no vision, or that he is proceeding without a plan. Another view is that the vision has not proceeded according to plan for a variety of reasons—the disappointing development of Bennett left the team without what they thought they were getting in a top-line centre; missing a starting goalie because of ownership interference or preferred out-of-conference destinations for trading partners; players invoking their NTCs—and that Treliving has been working his ass off to make corrections on the fly.
I am quite certain that the present team is also not what he envisioned back in 2015, but I also think that the same holds for most GMs over the course of their tenures, as things very seldom work out just according to the plan. No one imagined that David Rittich could be the Flames's starting goaltender in 2020, but thank God Treliving had the foresight to go out and get a free asset of his calibre four years ago.