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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I’m meh on Treliving at best, but don’t we have to also set off players drafted with picks acquired by Treliving? Andersson, Dube, Phillips, Parsons and Wolf for example? Also, a couple like Lauzon and Looke were not actually Calgary picks (they were drafted Washington picks traded to Calgary for Glencross). Plus those picks were used in packages for Hamilton and Kylington.
I mean, yes, in 2016 you lost Kyrou (or someone around there) and Nordgren (or someone around that pick) for Elliott, but you got Dube (plus Jokipakka and and Pollock) for Russell.
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I was merely correcting who is currently a NHL player in terms of mentioning Lauzon and Formenton.
The bigger issue is the perplexing strategy of burning picks on a net level. Treliving does that more than any other organization over the past 7 years. That is a bad strategy for any team that cannot attract top tier UFA's or is not a legitimate Stanley Cup contender like Tampa. It just seems so painfully obvious that that is not the correct approach for an organization like Calgary.
I don't really blame him for not moving Hamonic last year, all he could have received for him was likely a 3rd or maybe a 2nd round pick. That would be a pretty brutal self-own, so no GM is going to do that. But losing assets for nothing is something the team has done most years with the exception of Brad's first year when he traded some expiring Feaster assets for picks, despite being clearly in the playoff hunt. And it was the correct strategy, and one that the ownership who is apparently playoffs or bust were comfortable with. But then that strategy was abandoned by 2016/2017.