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Originally Posted by activeStick
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.
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Significantly since Treliving came on? I dunno about that. They had already shown the ability to draft Gaudreau, Brodie, Backlund, Ferland, Monahan, and Jankowski as "NHLers" before Treliving versus Mangiapane, Andersson, Tkachuk, Kylington, Valimaki, Dube as "NHLers" under Treliving. I'm not going to include 2014 draft since it's difficult to determine Treliving's input on it.
We certainly haven't been the team drafting guys like Bazral, Connor, Chabot, Dobson, Carlo, etc since he got here.
I do think there's some value being found in later rounds based on the analyitics, but if Treliving's value-added was simply taking a more analytic approach to drafting, you may as well hire a Twitter expert like Byron Bader as your drafting guru. That's not enough
value-added for a
general manager.
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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.
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It doesn't matter who you "put it on". Fact of the matter is, in one organization he was a 4th liner, and in another organization, he's a big minute player. The other organization clearly found a way to incorporate him into their mix. If Bennett wasn't intended to be that top six center here, Treliving should have traded him as early as 2016-17 when his trade value was still high. Treliving gets the biggest free pass for the failure to develop Bennett, when Treliving is the guy who doubled down on rosters full of left shot forwards, slow wingers, kept bringing in more and more centers (remember Nick Shore was brought in and immediately spent more time centering Gaudreau than Bennett? I do.)