The "Tre is afraid to turn over significant pieces of his roster" narrative doesn't make sense to me. It may be because of proximity bias, but I would wager that Tre is one of the more active "big fish" gm's in the league, both in terms of actually pulling the trigger and being a serious bidder even when it doesn't work out. It takes 2, or in some cases 3 parties to like the deal to pull a trigger on a trade and other gm's don't back off if you call it.
For those complaining about all the picks he has traded, I have done a bit of a look back over Tre's tenure with the Flames. If you add up all of the trades involving draft picks under him you get:
1st: -2
2nd: -2
3rd: -2
4th: +1
5th: -1
6th: 0
7th: 0
Essentially he has traded 2 firsts, 2 seconds and 2 thirds for Hamilton, Harmonic, and 2 starting goalies. I would have thought it would have been more. Given he has been trying to exit a rebuild and become a contender over his 6 seasons, He has overall been pretty careful about trading away his picks on balance, and has gotten good value overall, thanks in large part to great trades of the few players who had value who he did trade away, such as Glencross.
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