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Originally Posted by dino7c
Calgary is also a really tough market to be a GM in if we are being fair. Multiple good trades nixed due to geography not to mention free agents.
There is a reason Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, seem to sign the worst FA deals
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Treliving did a lot of this to himself though and overall I actually like Treliving as a GM, and think he did a lot of good. But also think it might be time for a new voice in the organization.
In the end to me three areas are what will get him fired and are what caused this team to not take the leap as a contender.
1) Terrible Coaching Hires: Gulutzan, Peters, Ward...in the end his coaching hires will be his demise. The team he built on the ice isn't actually the worst but his inability to actually bring in a coach that could get the most of this roster, or get this roster to overachieve is what will be hid demise.
2) Bad Free Agent Signings: His work in unrestricted free agency is pretty terrible overall. Brouwer and Neal are both horrible deals. Early returns on Markstrom and Tanev are okay but I feel like we might regret those within 2 years time. Ryan and Engelland were okay. Mason Raymond was bad.
Overall the biggest mistake is every time this team had cap space he felt the urge to go out and spend it on July 1. Instead of realizing the cap space itself is a valuable asset that could have been better used in trades for high impact players, instead of settling for what was available in UFA.
3) Mortgaging the Future on Short Term Fixes: At the start of his time here Treliving did a great job of turning Hudler, Russell, Baertschi, and Glencross into extra draft capital, which helped us acquire Hamilton.
But then the GM did a complete 180 and started wasting picks on low impact veterans. Elliott, Smith, Stone, Lazar, Hamonic cost this organization 1 First, 4 Seconds, 3 thirds.
Those assets turned into Noah Dobson, Jordan Kyrou, Ruslan Iskhakov, Samuel Bolduc, Alex Formenton, Stuart Skinner, Niklas Nordgren,
Mistake number 1 is what causes this team to underachieve. But mistake number 2 and 3 are what cause this team to lack depth internally without prospects to step in, or assets were used wastefully when they could have been used better.
If you don't sign James Neal or trade for Travis Hamonic then you probably have the cap space and assets for feel comfortable trading for Mark Stone.
But overall it was these signings or trades for "Low Impact, Middle Roster" players instead of focusing on using those assets on true top line high impact players that cost us.