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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
It was okay to have your chips all-in on Bennett+Janko (and the others) from 2014-2017, but since then the question marks on them have been getting bigger and bigger, the longshots have moved on, and BT seems to be just ignoring it and hoping for the best
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He should have known by 2018 IMO, and should have been hard after ROR. I remember saying that then, but many people felt ROR was a locker room cancer and that we had Bennett to become a top 6 C still. My retort was that if Bennett did indeed become a top 6 C, what a great problem to have, and that ROR had also played lots on the wing as well.
However, BT hasn't been ignoring it and hoping for the best. After the last playoff he successfully negotiated a trade for the very good top 6 C that he knew the team needed but unfortunately that player had trade protection and didn't want to come here. Treliving knew the biggest weakness and worked to fix it, but to circumstances beyond his control it didn't happen.
You can say he should have made other moves, but top 6 C's do not become available very often.
I suspect that if the Flames crap out again this post season, Treliving will be working hard to acquire again what he knows the team needs, and I suspect he will be more aggressive than ever, especially with some teams in serious trouble because of the cap.