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Originally Posted by taxbuster
From an ownership perspective "steady as she goes" is quite a common mantra. It's not one for "winning" anything (whether in Oil, Hockey or Cribbage) but one doesn't "lose" a tonne either. Merely staying afloat, keeping the cash rolling in. N'est-ce pas?
To win takes some degree of risk, and a risk-averse organization, which is what the Flames appear to be, isn't going far.
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I don’t know that Treliving is unwilling to stake risks - he’s made some big trades and signings. Hamilton, Hamonic, Brouwer, Neal, Lindholm/Hanifin, Tanev, Markstrom - when he IDs a player he wants he seems to make an effort to get him and he is willing to pay a risky price. Even the trades that fell through - Kadri, Anderson, eg. he was willing to disrupt the core.
But the player evaluation for a lot of them sucked. Mainly Hamonic, Brouwer and Neal and some of the bottoms end of the roster.
It’s probably unfair to cast stones at Treliving for spending draft picks AND accuse him of being risk averse.