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I think you need stability in management. There have been posters who have been calling for Treliving to be fired for two or three seasons now, if not more. I disagreed at that time, however, I'm really starting to lean the other way.

I don't necessarily think that Treliving is a bad GM, but the team isn't doing well at the moment and that can be traced back to Treliving. Several people opine about how he hasn't made a significant move within a season. He typically likes to do his big moves in the off season, and I can understand that and get behind it. However he isn't sitting on his hands in the off season on principle, he has made changes, and he has made attempts to make a big change but that just hasn't worked out.

His biggest shortcoming is his choice in coaches. Gulutzan just didn't work. Ward is simply not working. Peters got the team going but it started to fall off the rails. I wonder if he could have turned it around if not for his history coming back to bite him. It didn't seem like he was going to turn it around though.

Coaching choices have been terrible. The players seem to be a group that knows they have power over coaching because Treliving has chosen to change coaches without significant changes to the core, or at least to the parts of the leadership core. He did move out Hamilton and Ferland for Lindholm and Hanifin, and I think that trade is looking good, but none of the players involved in that trade are designated to wear a letter. It is quite clear that the players who have been around for a while are still a part of the problem. They've quit on the coaches, they've quit on their teammates, they've quit on themselves. Most importantly, they've quit on their supporters. Sentiment among fans is ugly right now.

So here we are. Treliving needs to make a move to shake up the team. A coaching change can help to begin the process, but it is clear that this group of players and the leaders will tune out that coach in short order too. Treliving needs to shake up the core in a big way. Fortunately he doesn't seem to be set to make a change for the sake of making a change. He seems to be willing to get value, or what he perceives to be value. That is where he has painted himself into a corner. He waited too long to move out a core leader and now the entire league knows that he is under the gun to do so. Nobody is going to give Treliving what he wants/needs to get for a player like Monahan, Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Backlund Giordano or whoever else he feels like moving. They're going to try to take advantage of Calgary's situation and Tre won't budge if he's not getting his fair value. Add to the fact that some/most of those players are simply not going to bring back as high of a return as they would have two or three years ago due to their inconsistency over the past few seasons.

Treliving has painted himself and this franchise into a corner. I think somebody else needs to step in to clean up this mess and that somebody else better be experienced and competent and not your latest bargain bin hopeful.