I honestly don't don't have too many beefs about Treliving's team building.
The Hamonic trade was a massive flub, and as I've repeated many times, missing out on ROR was another massive mistake. I think at that point he and his group had way too much faith in Bennett reaching his ceiling as a top 6 C, and they had also just traded for Lindholm.
The Neal signing was a mistake in hindsight, but at the time not too many people were that upset with it. Probably should have done a better job of researching the player's rep off the ice I guess. But if he just trades for ROR he never signs Neal anyways.
He was always on the hunt for a legit #1 goalie too, ever since he got to CGY. Had Bishop, but couldn't get a hold of Ken King in time. Then as a UFA Bishop chose Dallas. He was after Freddy Andersen, but Anaheim had the price set higher for a division rival and ended up dealing him to TO.
I'm inclined to want Treliving to stay at the helm as they try to retool this mess.
My biggest beef with the guy is his coaching hires. Three straight absolute disasters, and I just don't get his thinking with this last one especially (Ward). Jiri has me thinking though with the timing now, that maybe they were after Laviolette, but if a guy doesn't want to come to CGY there is not much Tre can do about that. At least I hope that's the case anyways.
It must be frustrating as hell to be a GM in a small Canadian market. You get shut down by UFA's and NTC's way more than any US or big market based GM does. Probably get spurned by coaches the odd time too.
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