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Originally Posted by Vinny01
We can’t count it as 7 years if we don’t count this season he made the playoffs in 4 of 6 then with the 7th TBD
It wasn’t entirely Feater’s team. Treliving signed Hiller who played over 50 games with a .920. They miss the playoffs without him. They likely also miss without Engellend who stepped up huge after Gio went down. I don’t see either of those moves listed above?
When Treliving took over this team it could have been easy to say they were 3-4 years from being a playoff team but they only went into the tank in one year which resulted in Tkachuk and have been competitive every other year.
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It is just such a low, sad bar. He burned off draft picks to try to maintain the level achieved in his first year. In that year, my recollection was that Wideman and Russell (two Feaster players) were the dmen who really stepped up the most after Gio went down. Hiller was an important contributor, but it is worth noting that Ramo had a higher winning percentage in the regular season and played 34 games. If we win three games in the playoffs this year our total since the 2015 playoffs will surpass the total playoff wins from that first year, a mere 6 years later. I suppose someone could have said they were 3-4 years away from being a playoff team but Feaster signings like Hudler and Wideman, Feaster trades like Russell and Jones and Feaster picks like Johnny and Monahan dragged that team into the playoffs less than 12 months after Brad became GM. I would say their contributions were more important than those of Raymond, Englland, Hiller and Bollig.