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Originally Posted by Vinny01
When talking about UFA’s again we are far from a desirable destination. I think there are some that post on here that think Calgary is far more desirable than the actual players.
Some of the deals you mention as misses were not really misses though and more of a trash for trash trade.
Amateur scouting and good drafting is how to build a team and very few teams are built through trade and free agency. Name a team that is good that doesn’t have good home grown talent?
I definitely think part of it is ownership pushing to win as soon as possible which leads to shortcuts. Maybe they do need to revamp the pro scouting ranks?
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Yeah but we haven’t heard Treliving fail to sign his UFA targets too often; and even if he does fail, not signing a guy is better than signing the wrong guy. Treliving makes a big dent in the UFA market a lot of years and I’d say there have been more really bad than home runs. Actually, I don’t think there is a home run yet. Perhaps Markstrom has that potential, but that remains to be seen.
I agree that scouting and drafting is the premier method of building a winning team. But lets be fair to the amateur scouts here, Treliving has had a history of trading draft picks, so that has perhaps hindered Button’s ability to build a better crop of young players.
Not to say that this would have happened. But I do sometimes imagine if the Flames had not traded for that sieve in Brian Elliott and instead had drafted Alex Debrincat instead, imagine how much better the Flames could be right now. Seems like the type of player Tod Button targets. Undersized and highly skilled. Fun to think about some of the coulds and maybes sometimes.