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Originally Posted by DomeFoam
Treliving signed a 25 goal scorer. No one knew he'd turn into an absolute #### bag. Everyone was celebrating that signing. Hindsight is 20/20 i guess!
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True but this is why you have pro scouts and analytics.
Who supported the signing and who advised it against it?
If they all supported it - points to bad scouting and analytics
If they didn't support it and the GM did it anyway - that's on Tree.
The argument for signing Neal was that indeed he was a consistent 20 goal guy.
But one would expect those paid to do this job - would go deeper than that.
I don't think Tree should be fired for it - but the Neal signing was his single worst move as GM and did damage to his ability to build a contender. No question.