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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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Sorry to circle back but I have to disagree hard with this point as well. The logic behind the Hamonic acquisition was completely flawed as Brodie plays the right side
Brad inherited one of the best pairings in the entire league in Gio and Brodie and decided to break them up (or at least Gulutzan did) and play Brodie on the left where he was less comfortable. It negatively impacted both their games
The logic was based on this completely idiotic and binary belief that you need to play a left shot with a right shot. The Flames never at any point needed Hamonic when they not only were set on the right side, they had arguably the best right side in the entire league with Brodie/Hamilton/Stone/Rasmus developing
So no the logic behind it was actually the complete opposite of sound. Break up a dominant top pairing because they both shoot the same way and pay a first and two seconds to bring in a guy because he shoots right