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Originally Posted by cannon7
Treliving's real failure as a GM is pro scouting. Pretty much the rest of the league knew what Hamonic was, hence why there were no takers when he initially requested a trade. It took dufus Treliving and his "pro scouts" to overpay for a rapidly regressing defensive defenceman a full two seasons since his last decent campaign. It was a trade that every other GM in the league looked around and asked: "This is the wizard? Really?"
But there's a long list of disastrous pro scouting. From James Neal, to Troy Brouwer, to Mason Raymond, to Brandon Bolig, to Jaromir Jagr, etc.
Now we have head scratchers like Simon, Leivo and Norstrom.
We hope Tanev and Markstrom pan out, but it likely won't be due to pro scouting knowing what they're doing and instead just plain dumb luck. Hell, without Peters recommendation, Ryan may not have been acquired.
If Treliving remains as GM, he should just stop acquiring pros. He has no idea what he's doing there. He should also just fire his pro scouting staff and buy a dart board with the savings.
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Yep, I’ve been saying this for a while. Treliving’s pro scouting is borderline abysmal. The Brouwer and Neal signings absolutely crippled the team’s cap situation and it forced him down the path of acquiring bottom of the barrel solutions which proved to be utter utter failures this season. If one or two of those signings do not occur, maybe they can afford to pay a Tyler Toffoli instead of watching him eat us alive this season.
Just a ton of questionable moves like getting rid of effective NHLers like Paul Byron, Joe Colborne and Brett Kulak for nothing while picking up Curtis Lazar, Hunter Shinkaruks, Rinet Valiev and etc. Like even though these aren’t huge in the grand scheme of things, it still leads me to question his judgement.
His vision was all about building from the net out and constantly getting offense from your defense. But it lead the Flames no where because they couldn’t score when it mattered. Now his negligence to the forward group has lead to so many holes everywhere up front that the team once again, cannot score enough to win. If he does indeed stay, he should be stripped of all his pro scouting ability to focus on contract negotiations/forecast and drafting.