For perspective, Neal and Brouwer signings have been widely viewed as successful here. "Successful" is a wrong term for evaluating FA signing immediately after the deadline. We can know if this was successful only after the signed FA's finish their tenure here.
I doubt anyone here seriously considered Pietrangelo and Hall as realistic acquisition targets, so there's that. On the basis of filling gaping holes, Treliving was able to sign the best available goaltender and replace a lost top-4 defenseman with a similar quality defenseman.
Treliving was not able to add the best realistically available top-line right winger in Toffoli, who signed a reasonable contract elsewhere. But we don't know the real story here, so it's impossible to judge. If Toffoli would have signed here for the same contract, then I would say Treliving had missed a good opportunity. However; if Toffoli was offered a similar deal but simply didn't want to come here given a choice, then Treliving did well by not offering him more.
So, two out of three in terms of strategic signings. 66%overall.
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