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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Treliving deserves plenty of criticism for his handling of coaches, several of his free agent acquisitions, and for flouting draft picks. However, one of the things he has excelled at in his job is getting very good value for his players.
· Curtis Glencross and Sven Baertschi were moved for two 2nds and a 3rd round pick.
· Kris Russell and Jiri Hudler were traded for Jyrki Jokipaka, Brett Pollock, two 2nds and a 4th. He also traded David Jones, Marcus Granlund and Max Reinhart for Hunter Shinkaruk, a conditional 4th and a 6th.
· Micheal Ferland, Dougie Hamilton and a disgruntled Adam Fox—who would not come to terms on a contract—were traded for Elias Lindholm, Noah Hanifin—arguably the team's current #1 centre and #1 defenseman.
· He turned James Neal into Milan Lucic with some cap savings and a 3rd. Since the start of 2020 Lucic has played 64 games in Calgary and scored 12 goals and 27 points. Neal has 5 goals and 13 points in 34 games.
Treliving dropped the ball on the Kulak trade, but I don't think he has often come out on the losing side of these sorts of deals for his players.
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He just trades his players at a much lower rate than every other organization over the past 7 years, probably because he is pretty comfortable with the core that he has. Outside of trading picks he has made the Neal trade and the Hamilton + for Lindholm and Hanifin trade. After the trade with Carolina he did not really make any more major deals.