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Originally Posted by Red
Ultimately Treliving is the architect of this team so the buck stops there.
The "cheap owners" tidbits we hear about here are not an excuse either. It's Treliving's job to convince the owners to spend.
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What?!? No. This is not how it works. I know below is dramatization but it's based on well researched book and I've heard other executives say things like this. Even Burke once mentioned some owners come in and say our budget depends on playoff gate so there are constraints.
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Treliving has been a very busy GM, but a lot of his moves seemed to be shots in the dark with no real plan to follow.
So in short, make a plan to build a team with an identity or an attribute that you want the team to be know for and work towards it. Open the wallet and spend on actual difference makers.
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This is just wrong. All of these critiques of Treliving are just emotional projections with silly assumptions and looking at things in a vacuum.
I think Treliving is extremely dilligent in this thought process - it can and does for any GM, not always work out. There is just hindsight complaints and I get it, there is frustration.