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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary

meh... I don't know where this 'it takes time argument' comes from honestly.

of the current GMs, Treliving is the 10th longest tenured.

NSH Poile July 9, 1997
SJS Wilson May 13, 2003
ANA Murray November 12, 2008
CHI Bowman July 14, 2009
STL Armstrong July 1, 2010
WPG Chevy June 8, 2011
MTL Bergevin May 2, 2012
CBJ Kekalainen February 13, 2013
DAL Nill April 29, 2013
CGY Treliving April 28, 2014
Van Benning May 21, 2014
WSH MacLellan May 26, 2014
COL Sakic September 19, 2014

Of these GMs, the ones bolded either won or were in a SCF. Those in italics got to the conference finals. Only 2 GMs hired before Treliving have done less in the same amount of time: Chevy and Kekalainen.

Jets got to the conference finals in 2018.