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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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I think there's a fundamental issue with the way Treliving approaches player acquisition. It's either "fill holes in the lineup for as low a price as possible" OR "get the best player of this type that's available right now".
The former leads to wasting picks year after year on extremely mediocre players, and the latter leads us to overpaying for guys that are not actually difference makers.
This is what built him "the wizard" reputation, because these are moves that look good on paper and hockey commentators tend to like them. It's all about the now and the context of where each move is made, and not enough about "is this player generally speaking worth this".