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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The biggest thing that went wrong is that several key players did not take the next step, including Johnny and Monahan, leaving the club with best players that are consistently outplayed by the other team's best players.
To me that's the biggest factor, coupled with Sam not becoming an impact player, that has wrecked this edition of the club and why some sort of reset needs to happen.
The closest similar situation is the Flyers realizing that Carter/Richards weren't going to lead them to a cup. So they moved on and moved them.
That's what I think needs to happen here.
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This isn't some occurrence that just randomly materialized though. Most fans that I know, were highly critical of Monahan, Bennett, Gaudreau well before the last 1.5 seasons. For me, it's squarely on Treliving for not evaluating the fact that a guy like Monahan can't be going up against the other top Center's in the division, and that a guy like Bennett was/is a lost cause, that Gaudreau needs a play driving center. The signs were all there thanks to repeated disappearing acts year after year.
You point out Carter/Richards and the big difference there is that the GM of that team made a ballsy decision to move them while they still had value. He evaluated his players and was willing to see them as inadequate. Carter turned into Voracek, Couturier and Cousins. Richards turned into Simmonds and Schenn.
For these reason alone, Treliving is a bust of a GM in my books.