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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I'd argue Treliving's "approach" hasn't changed. It is to trade away picks for players, running a deficit. He is able to recoup some of these when team fails and he's a seller. But the latter is not by design really. If this was a team making the playoffs every year, we'd have a total pick deficit.
In the off season, when all things are equal, Treliving almost never accumulates picks. He has zero depth from which to trade.
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Aren't you describing every GM?
You expend picks when you are competing, and acquire picks when you are falling.
The issue is the judgement of when you should go all in, and as I've said about 2 dozen times, he was wrong to bet on Gaudreau and Monahan as 2/3 of a top line.
A fairly strong majority of people on this site seemed to feel the same way at the time however.