[DazzlinDino]

Originally Posted by TOfan

Highly suspect.

I’ll argue that Markstrom and Tanev are not peripheral parts, far from it. Moving forward, the acquisition of those two players could prove to be very good moves, I believe there’s very good reason to believe that will be the case.

Overall, was last offseason a failed strategy? Hard to argue it wasn’t based on this past season. I’m reasonably sure signing Lievo, Nordstrom,Simon, Ritchie wasn’t Treliving’s first choice, but not everything is going to fall into place exactly how one might want it to. We can only speculate, but what would a Gaudreau-Monahan-Andersson line looked like? Better that Gaudreau-Monahan-Ritchie/Simon/Lievo, I bet.

Problem is, a GM might have a plan, but so do 30 other GM’s. you have to find a match. there are negotiations on top of negotiations, throughout the league. I really think people underestimate how challenging it must be to make these types of player acquisitions.

Other teams could say the same thing but many of them are making it work. We had a player in Sam Bennett but the organization lacked the ability to take advantage of this asset. He is now getting opportunities elsewhere. Your suggesting we are lacking because we are competing against 30 other GM's. I would counter the Flames need to step up their game and start a better job instead of making excuses.