Treliving inherited a team that had 7 first round picks in the previous 6 years and a team that had Sean Monahan, Johnny Gaudreau, TJ Brodie, Joe Colborne, Mikael Backlund, Lance Bouma, Sven Baertschi, Markus Granlund and Paul Byron under the age of 25. He had the following players in the system - Ferland, Jankowski and Kulak.
I think that team, with a 2015 first rounder and four 2015 second rounders and a 2018 first rounder and a couple seconds, along with a high second rounder in 2016 likely is ok in 2021. It would seem that there would likely be some assets maturing around now, assets that may have pushed out other assets, spurring on other trade opportunities or just different options.
But it is definitely false to say that the cupboards were empty when Brad came in. He was fairly well positioned for a rebuild.
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