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Originally Posted by nieuwy-89
To me it’s simple: Treliving led the franchise into this mess, he should lead them out of it.
Firing him would be letting him off the hook.
He knows the league, the organization, and the city, inside out. He’s learned his lessons and taken his lumps. Now is the time for stability and patience. Let’s capitalize on having a tenured GM who should now be entering his prime.
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Except his pro talent evaluation has been proven to be pretty bad at this point and that’s a big problem. Like, he's been around since Gaudreau-Monahan’s inception and he still doesn’t seem to know anything about them. He tried to pair them with Josh Leivo, Dominic Simon and Brett Ritchie this season. After all these years, this might be the worst attempted line combinations. Much much worse then the Chiasson, Brouwer fiasco in 16-17.
Then you throw in all the failed UFA’s, trades and buyouts and there’s a pretty large sample size of bad player evaluation. To this day, I still cannot understand what he saw in Neal, Lazar, Elliott, Hiller, Bollig and Hamonic. After just 2 preseason games in China I could already see that James Neal would be a disaster. I never saw anything redeeming about Curtis Lazar’s play that was worth a 2nd round pick. I hated Brian Elliott’s game right from the start. Even during the his 10 game win streak I wasn’t enamored with his play and he followed that up with maybe the worst goaltending performance in Flames’ playoff history. For Jonas Hiller, I’ll just say .879 sv% and I think that speaks for itself. Bollig was one of the most useless plugs I’ve ever seen and his spot on the roster cost the team Paul Byron who the Flames lost for nothing on waivers. That’s another minus 1 for Treliving.
The Travis Hamonic acquisition is a real interesting story in that I’ve heard Brian Burke’s backstory on it where he mentioned that Treliving absolutely loved Hamonic’s game and raved about him. He asked Brian one day to scout Hamonic and he agreed that he was indeed a great player and endorsed the trade. Probably pretty damning on both of them because Hamonic was nothing special and cost the Flames a first rounder and 2 seconds and they didn’t even make the playoffs the season he arrived. Just a real shoddy display of player evaluation from what I’ve seen and really, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.