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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Treliving has a plan, but it has largely not succeeded because of personnel. He had a plan for goalies prior to Markstrom. It was to use vets as stopgaps until Parsons or Gillies were established. He had a centre plan - Bennett/Monahan. Then Lindholm in the mix. He had a RW plan, but his choices for that slot were bad. His notion of a RHS D to play top 4 with Brodie, Gio and Hamilton was sound - he targeted the wrong guy.
If Gillies/Parsons, Bennett, Neal and Hamonic panned out like the plan assumed, you’d have a strong team at goal, D and down the middle. And you’d have a big goal scorer on the RW. Treliving’s flaw isn’t his plan. It’s mainly his pro scouting, plus just bad luck with goalies.
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That’s not a plan, those are just individual pieces. Doesn’t take a genius to look at a depth chart and say “hey we need a goalie”
What kind of team is he trying to build? Obviously not a fast team with Tkachuk, Neal, and Monahan in his top 6
I think he lacks a big picture vision of what he actually wants the Calgary Flames to be and play and nothing proves that better than his absolute gong show of a coaching carousel
It’s no wonder his team lacks identity when most of the good players have gone from Hartley hockey to whatever Gulutzan was thinking to Peters to Ward to Sutter in 5 years
Franchise has seemed completely rudderless under his leadership ever since he hired Gulutzan IMO