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Originally Posted by Vinny01
What if Jay Feaster and John Weisbroad enter the room?
Not really sure what Treliving has done to receive that criticism. Did he make a trade or draft pick that he thought he was sneaky smart with and told people how great this would turn out?
To me smartest guy in the room moves are ones like drafting a high school kid in the first round and declare he will be the best player in that draft 10 years later or trading a 2nd along with Regehr so they could dump a contract that the Sabres ended up burying in Europe so they could offer a 31 year old a 9 year $66M contract offer so he could help our 33 year old forward and 34 year old goalie win a cup
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The phrase is famous with respect to the Enron guys (and it was so true about how their Calgary office treated negotiations, like everyone else was an idiot for not seeing their genius strategies).
Treliving's flaw is that I think he's a bit reactionary and not as long term in his thinking. He sees holes and wants to fill them quickly, and sometimes guesses wrong with who should fill that spot.