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Originally Posted by GioforPM
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.
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Don't disagree - but what he doesn't seem to do is risk "overpaying" (really the optics of being thought to have overpaid) for a player who may well help the team and then settles for something...else. That's the only explanation I can come up with for all the "Well, we were in on so-and-so, but ....".