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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
1) decide what type of team they want to be.
2) get a coach who can play that style, then move out the players who can't, and bring in players who can
The biggest question is: is the current management capable of doing that? I have been a Treliving supporter from the start. But 7 years in and he hasn't accomplished either of those things.
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Those two things are actually just what I think Treliving has been doing. The move from Hartley to Gulutzan was a total change in style, and since then it's all been fairly similar approach but with different coaches behind the bench. Tre seems to have an idea about how he wants the team to play and has repeatedly gone for coaches whose approach match his vision. He has made some excellent trades, and he's managed the cap and player contracts well, but the pieces haven't quite been a good fit together and his vision hasn't found sustainable success. There are few GMs in the league who I would have more confidence in for trades, player acquisition and cap management, but I'm not confident that what he has envisioned the team becoming is actually a winning model on the ice.
It's disappointing, because there are good tools to build a team there, but it feels they're being employed to realize a vision that is flawed. If Tre is given more time, the question is whether he uses that to keep retooling players and coaches towards better realizing his vision in the belief it can still work, or he changes his vision and uses his strong operational skills to build towards something different.