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Originally Posted by TOfan
Sure, we can quibble over PTO’s, waived players, and 4th liners on one year league min contracts but, again, all GM’s play these cards. Are we going to be talking about how good Tobias Rieder was on his one year two way deal 4-5 years from now? Goes both ways. Not too sure why we cling onto the ‘mistakes’.
But let’s be straight, it’s the core that is the issue.
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Yes and Treliving chose to go with that core. Another GM might have said, that’s not enough and let’s keep adding pieces patiently instead of trading for Dougie Hamilton after a very luck driven season. Then the Brian Elliott and Lazar trades. Then he saves the worst one of all in the Travis Hamonic acquisition.
I’m not even sure I agree with his philosophy of building from the back end out. He used 6 quality draft picks on 2 defensemen that resulted in a non playoff appearance the following season. Sure, the decision to go with the core that he did at the time seemed fine, but it ended up being a weaker core in the grand scheme of things. So the margin for error is razor thin. But errors occurred too often and now the team is left in shambles. 5 different coaches, player values at an all time low, cupboards looking thin, direction looks murky at best and what we as fans ended up with was a pile of quick first round exits and ugly regular seasons.
I will say Treliving did some good things, but I will continue to say that this fanbase needs to collectively raise expectations and stop accepting mediocrity because until we do, we’ll continue to see the same middling garbage over and over and over.