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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
That’s nice.
What I was talking about was slotting, and the bigger picture, those players in the context of Treliving’s work. Last year the Flames had top 4
Gio - Brodie
Hanifin - Hamonic
This year they started with
Gio - Andersson
Hanifin - Tanev
So we have
Tanev > Hamonic, which is nice
Brodie >>> Andersson. He wasn’t ready
Now assuming you decide to keep Brodie, and you had 4 actual top 4 D slotted correctly, it could have been:
Gio - Brodie
Hanifin - Tanev
That’d be a really good top 4
Under Sutter, recently, Tanev was moved to partner with Gio and shelter Andersson.
Treliving paid Andersson in the neighbourhood of both Brodie and Tanev and he was slotted top pair. Didn’t work, and as a harmful byproduct, it neutralized Gio
Bad read of where the team was at and what it needed.
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Treliving paid Andersson for prime years coming ahead. The kid is still young. That’s how long term contracts work, and it’s a mistake to judge them in year one. And IMO Hanifin-Tanev was the top pairing to start the year. A pretty successful pairing at that.