I think this thread is discussing the wrong thing. Treliving's trade history is fine, more or less. Not good, but better than Feaster's. He spent draft picks when he shouldn't have. The rebuild was ended too early.
The Lindholm trade comes down to whether you count the Fox situation and contract extensions as part of the deal. I tend to consider the trade a win (even though I hated it at the time).
Drafting and developing has been pretty good. But I think that comes from other Flames staff who have been here and will continue to be here. And really, this is our only source of hope as fans. It's important, and it's the one area that has been good. But the Flames still haven't drafted/developed a goalie in decades. Other than the Boltmann pick, I liked the most recent draft.
The real problems?
The UFA free agency signings are really where the problems are.
It's also rather annoying that he didn't acquire Lehner, who was available three times, or Stone, who is having a monster of a year. Guys like Miller and O'Reilly moved for reasonable prices. There are several near misses (see Kadri) that I don't give Treliving credit for since the trades didn't happen. The core was kept together for way too long, even after repeated failure. Monahan should have been traded a while ago. Now he's had back to back 55 point (in pace) seasons.
Another big problem is that he has hired bad coaches. But at least we have Sutter now.
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