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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
How are some still defending the GM?
He's had no playoff success, multiple coaching hires and fires, multiple misses at acquiring a goalie, no #1 center, wasted Gio's best years and the currently constructed the team that is out of the playoffs and likely gets worked if they sneak in.
All that with being a cap team.
Who cares what pick he got for trading Hudler or Glencross etc years ago...Commending him for how he handled the Peters situation? He hired the guy without doing a proper check. Its not like he was left all alone to deal with this, the Flames PR, president, owner, NHL etc were all involved. He was the speaker of what he was being told to say.
He's had 2/3 of a decade to fix this thing and looks like a pile of crap. Theres no small victories, the point is to win and he hasn't done enough of it and the future doesnt seem very bright either.
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Lot of truth in this.
Brad Treliving is a very likable GM and he’s done a lot of good things, but his vision has ultimately been a failure.
But he’s had 7 years to take this team full of promise, full of solid foundational pieces and take them to the next level. That has not happened and it appears the window is quickly closing and his team has actually regressed, not improved.
Maybe he attached himself to the wrong core or maybe he didn’t build the core enough, traded too many picks for quick fixes that didn’t pan out, made a lot of bad UFA signings that are still a hinderance on the cap, took too long to find the right goaltender, too many coaches and ultimately too many holes to fix at this point.
There’s probably a lot of conclusions that can be drawn, but regardless of what conclusion you come to, the fact is, this organization has been in a race to the finish line for 7 years and we’re still stuck in roughly the same spot as we were before. We’re just spinning our tires in the mud at this point. Treliving has tried everything he can to get us out of the mud, but other teams behind are quickly passing us by. We need a new driver. Someone who can recognize what this team really needs instead of selecting the Joakim Nordstroms, Josh Leivos, Dominic Simons, Brett Ritchies of the NHL world.