Treliving's coaches have all been various shades of awful.
He's never solved the goaltending issue, though I don't think it was the reason for this post-season flame out or last year's - Talbot and Smith gave the team enough to win.
The best players on the roster have always been Johnny and Monahan. They aren't playoff players. Monahan had the most physically engaged season of his career. He finished hits. He fought the Tenderness. Yet for any other player in the sport, it would be a laughably soft campaign.
Gaudreau bails out at the faceoff dot during puck races.
You can't win with top players that don't have another level to reach when the games get hard.
Maybe there's something to be said for a GM who doesn't take six years to figure out who 13 and 23 are.
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