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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Hamilton is long gone and we are now at the point where the bad outweighs the good over Treliving's tenure. For a guy that had a reputation of wheeling and dealing he's kept a rotten core intact and as the 960 guys were saying this morning the GM has a daunting task of trying to make offseason changes when almost all of his assets have been devalued. He's made such a mess of things that even the smartest GM would have a difficult time navigating the waters with an ownership group that was expecting a winner and not a rebuild.
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Yes I agree the last big trwde he made was 3 years ago which is almost half of his entire tenure. He definitely is a guy that likes to talk deal but hasn’t been able to close many relative to the rumors.
It all started in 2014 the Flames were getting the Carolina 7th overall pick for taking back Cam Ward’s deal. Or the Flames were getting the Coyotes 12th overall pick but Mike Ribero won’t waive his NMC to come here
2015 he pulls off the big Hamilton deal to cap off a hugely successful year 1
2016 rumors all day on the draft that the Flames are either acquiring Ben Bishop and signing him to a 7x7 deal and/or the Flames will be moving into the top 3 of the draft. The night ends up okay as Tkachuk slipped to the Flames at 6 but Brian Elliott was hardly as exciting as Bishop would have been
2017- he makes the Smith and Hamonic deals to keep the wheeling and dealing personna alive but makes a horrible trade with the Islanders
2018- makes the Hurricanes blockbuster and signs plenty of free agents in Ryan, Czarnik, and Neal to multi year deals.
2019-21 he does very little with the team. Swaps Neal for Lucic, makes the big big goalie signing this past offseason and swaps Brodie/Hamonic for Tanev. Lots of potential deals fall through for Stone, Zucker, Kadri and the flames were not able to make the Dubois trade.
He held onto the core for too long hoping they bounce back but now he has to make changes and the assets are worth less than they were last year or the year before. Worries me to think he may have little choice but to tinker and maybe make one really big move (Gaudreau) that underwhelms the fans and they come back next year fully committed to Sutter hockey which will have the Flames playing mostly 2-1 games for the next 2 years until they rear the whole thing down