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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Plenty of good prospects? Who? Look at that list.
The previous regime extracted nothing of value out of the previous core (Iginla, Kipper, Regehr, Langkow, etc). If handled properly he would have some additional asset capital to work with.
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I feel like this has been gone through before and I'll probably miss something but he had:
Monahan who was still in his rookie season.
Gaudreau who I don't think had played a game at that point.
Baertschi who while struggling still had a lot of potential, if nothing else he had trade value which Treliving wisely took advantage of.
Ferland who was about to take a regular NHL spot.
Jankowski who didn't become a world beater but was a good prospect who became a regular NHL'er.
He also had Poirier, Klimchuk, Gillies who were considered to be very good prospects. Poirier was showing a lot of promise until his addiction issues. I don't know what the hell happened to Gillies, probably the same thing that happens to all of our goalie prospects.
He had the 4th overall pick in the upcoming draft. If he didn't like the player available he could have traded down which he has done since. I dont blame him for taking Bennett though, that was the no brainer move at the time. He had almost all of his draft picks, all of the high ones.
It's not like he had a mess to clean up, he had a clear path to shape the team however he wanted. It's been 7 years, it's time to stop blaming the previous management.