Quote:
Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
I do think ownership caused the rebuild to not be as deep or long.
It was a bad strategic decision, and they should get the blame. Ownership is to blame for the prolonged mediocrity.
But Treliving has definitely made many of his own mistakes.
The more specific errors can be attributed to Treliving. The Gulutzan hire, the Neal signing, acquiring guys like Smith and Elliott instead of Lehner and Grubauer... These were just bad evaluations of talent.
I would say that both ownership and management should be fired.
However, only one of these things is possible (unfortunately).
|
I lay a lot of blame on ownership, but they tried to save themselves from themselves by hiring Burke. Who couldn't save himself from himself.
Quote:
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.
|
Monahan
Poirier
Klimchuk
Janko
Baertschi
Erixon
Nemisz (maybe you meant Bennett?)
Two of those 1sts were in the top 20 (Monny, Baertschi).
The cupboards may not have been bare, but they were pretty close.