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Originally Posted by bizaro86
The most Flames thing ever would be for them to cut bait on Treliving after 7 unsuccessful years, and have it turn out that he had finally learned how to be a successful NHL GM.
I can totally see him ending up in another GM role and ending up being the front office equivalent of St Louis or Savard, and building a perennial contentender/cup winner somewhere else.
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Perhaps it's part in parcel with brand new GMs. They end up making mistakes their first go around and then know what not to do the next time around. Perhaps a more veteran GM could've seen the flaws that Brad didn't see and perhaps Brad does it right the next time around.
But one thing I would like to see if Brad does stick around, nuke most of his pro scouting staff. They need a different set of eyes out there. This team needs to spare no expense in finding the best scouts who can recognize talent/ability/skills and etc. I heard Brian Burke once say in an interview that he couldn't scout players and see "it" right away, which he implied that there are other scouts who can. So this organization needs more scouts who have that innate ability to see "it," those who can distinguish the greats from the very good.