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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
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.
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.
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TBF, Carter and Richards practically forced the Flyers' hand. And Holmgren's Flyers won at about the same rate before and after that trade (and after he got promoted out of GM as well).