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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
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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Peter Charelli inherited a team that had the first overall pick and three previous 1OA’s as well. He also had Nurse and Draisaitl. He had the following under 25 as well; Laurent Brossoit, Adam clendening, Brandon Davidson, Jordan Eberle, Oscar Klefbim, Anton Lander, and, ahem, Griffey Reinhardt....I’m sure they also had draft picks.
You’re also doing a fine job of picking your spots. The Flames entered the 2015 draft with a first and three 2nds. They traded the first and two seconds for Hamilton, leaving the with one. They acquired the ‘fourth’ second through another trade to select Kylington. So I guess in your view Treliving should be faulted for the picks surrendered for
Hamilton, but we can sweep the acquisition of the fourth 2nd under the carpet.