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Originally Posted by Pointman
Treliving is from rich businessmen family and knows how to act around billionaires and make them feel like he's sort of one of them, of similar mindset and values.
I personally have been getting Elizabeth Holmes type vibes from Treliving. He talks about how hard he works, he knows how to talk smart, but he doesn't really know what he's talking about. He talks about throughout search and hires Gully, for example. If you look at his interviews and about how he's going to build a team, and then look at what he's actually doing. It's seems like he has no clue.
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I don't know about your particular take, but I do think everything boils down to the relationship with ownership.
Do the owners want to hear the truth, or do they want to hear what they want to hear?
I suspect it's the latter...and they want to believe that if they just get in then anything is possible [like it was that one time in these last 30 years].
Conversely, the truth has been evident since the COL series (and bloody obvious as more time passed) that we simply aren't good enough and need to take a step back to try to take two steps forward.
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Originally Posted by Northendzone
my thought is that brad has been at the helm when some good decisions were made, and some bad decisions - the worst ones being with respect to coaches.
he seems to be ok at being a GM.
at the end of the day are the flames that much better than when he took over? there have been what two playoff rounds won in his tenure.
however, the other reality is that if they move on to someone new, then it becomes a process for the new person to get their people in place, and to reshape things to fit the new GM's vision.
Also, lets be real in that i would have to think that calgary is not a top destination for free agents, so it is hard to retool quickly.
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Bolded is simply false. We've signed as many 4x4 or 5x5 team changing UFAs as anybody except NYR and PHI. Relying on UFAs is also a terrible strategy.