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Originally Posted by chedder
^ almost nobody in this thread is arguing it will be a retool. That's pretty obvious with the Sutter hire. How big a shakeup and who is shipped out and brought in is the unknown.
The question and the thread is about whether Treliving should be the one to attempt it. Most, including me, say a big no to that. He has failed to make this team markedly better. Playoff performance has been a joke and our two stars will likely be playing elsewhere in 2 years or less. He hasn't built the team to contend consistently, let alone once.
How Johnny and Matthew are handled is going to dictate the future of this team and I don't want Treliving anywhere near those decisions.
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Don’t really care to wade into the ‘retool’ vs ‘rebuild’ discussion, but it seems like you are saying no one is arguing the flames are going to rebuild, because of the Sutter hiring. In that case, I agree. I do think this team is going to make one or two significant roster moves. Call that a retool, or whatever. But that is what I think will happen.
Back to Treliving, I think it’s likely he’s the guy who is going to be making those moves. First of all, and I’ve said this for months now, but he has 2 years left on his deal. If the Flames fire him, is he the only one? What about Conroy, Pascsl, Maloney? Even if I’m squinting, I doubt the ownership has much of an appetite to pay Treliving for two more years while paying for his replacement. Unless they go with another first time GM at low cost. Which would be pretty Flamesy.
Second, I would imagine Treliving and hockey ops has a plan in place that has been established for some time now. I believe Friedman said shortly after the TDL that a lot of groundwork had been done for this offseason. Fire Treliving, you’re starting over and I bet it gets worse before it gets better. The first thing most GM’s say when they get the job; ‘we want to see what we have’, in other words do not expect much. This is a pivotal offseason for the team. Throwing someone new into the GM’s position is a shortsighted strategy.
Treliving’s going to get one more year to correct course. The true sign that his time may be coming to an end is whether or not the flames hire a POHO. If there is a new GM, he will have had the year to evaluate.