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Originally Posted by TheSquatch
If Bennett had graduated, gotten better instead of worse, and become the 1C everyone thought he could be on draft day, this team looks totally different.
Totally. Different.
And I can't see how that's on Brad. Flames have gone "off the board" and it didn't work at all. They picked the obvious agreed upon player, and that player didn't pan out strong enough.
If the team got a 1C, a true strong 1C, everything else would work. But they didn't, so they linger as a middling team, exchanging middle pieces for other middling pieces.
Yeah Neal was a bum. That sucked, and again hurt the team, but I don't think anyone expected his total drop-off to uselessness - he'd looked okay with Vegas.
The team slotting is all screwed up, and it's because Monahan has to play 1C and not 2C, which he'd absolutely dominate at.
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This is a good post that I mostly agree with, but I thanked it because of your correct usage of the verb "dominate." Well done.
I don't think Treliving should get a mulligan on the Neal contract. It was bad, and while a lot of posters did not recognise its badness, there were several who did, and the GM probably should have known better.
But I also don't believe that the Neal contract or even the Hamonic trade (also bad) are the primary contributing factors to the Flames's most glaring problems. In large part I think the issues have been things falling outside of the GM's control, nearly impossible to predict, and very difficult to correct. (Some of these, you have yourself highlighted.) But what I do appreciate about Treliving is that the most glaring clear errors like Hamonic and Neal are a part of the past which is growing in distance, and his more recent collection of player personnel decisions have been MUCH improved. I think that is positively meaningful.
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