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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
What building teams takes, is patience and an emphasis on drafting.
Treliving has been impatient and traded countless draft picks on replacement level players who wouldn't be here even 3 years later (Hamonic, Lazar, Elliott, Smith, Fantenberg, Forbort, Gustavsson). He's wasted a ton of cap space on UFA veterans. He's taken his highest-ever draft pick and constructed roster-after-roster in which that player would be buried, and never able to log a twenty minute ice time game, culminating in losing a 4th overall pick for two seconds, only to see him break out the minute he gets an opportunity.
That is simply not how you build a contending team. It's how you build a treadmill team. Which is exactly what Malony and Treliving have build whether it's in Arizona or Calgary.
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I agree with you with regards to patience and an emphasis on drafting. I also believe that the drafting has improved significantly since Treliving has come in compared to before. That's actually one of his positives for me.
I agree with you that Treliving felt this team was ready to take the next step, when clearly they weren't. On the Bennett stuff, I put it on Bennett that he ended up being buried because he couldn't beat out guys like Brouwer and Frolik early on and then Dube and Mangiapane later.