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Originally Posted by timbit
Before the playoff series against the AVS in 2019, when the Flames had the best record in the conference,VERY FEW people questioned whether Sean and Johnny were high end top line Stars, with the stats to back it up.
Yes , their play did diminish the last half of that season and gone further downhill since.However , very few on this board could, or actually did, predict the rapid decline of both.
I most definitely agree that they are, currently, a mere shadow of their former selves.
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I do feel that the saving grace for Treliving in keeping his job is just how sudden the drop off of the two most important forwards of the roster has been in the past two years. It was entirely unexpected, and it completely ruined prospect of contendership window for the group. These guys are suppose to be in the prime right now. Only Lindholm is performing adequately in relation to his potential right now.
Even if coaching has been that ####ty for several seasons - and it has been - these players were still performing well despite that. So it's not like the coaching as a whole is why they aren't carrying the team anymore. This also is a season where pretty much EVERYONE is playing below their expected performance level. But as mentioned in this thread of another from a Sutter interview, this roster is not good at playing the same team over and over again. And that's what we've seen over the past several playoff one and done's.
Now I do believe that since Tre is the GM and he built this roster, he's gotta be like the captain of a ship that's going down, and be fired to bring in a new GM with a new fresh of eyes and vision for the team. But still playing out the season to see if the Sutter effect could make the team rebound to make the playoffs probably delayed the process. And the COVID effect is still in play here where things aren't being done as they usually are, and the transition to a new GM at the point with such a crucial juncture upcoming in a little over two months doesn't give enough time to bring someone else in and settled before making big moves.
So if he does survive this upcoming offseason and can make major changes that ownership is aligned with, he might be able to save his job still.