Quote:
Originally Posted by kehatch
That is absurdly untrue. When Treliving started: - The Flames hadn't made the playoffs in 5 seasons. Since his arrival we have made the playoffs 4 of 7 times and won the regular season conference once.
- The prospect pool included two guys drafted top 6 (Monahan, Bennett) and Gaudreau. CP was rioting over the utilization of Baertshi. The rest of the pool was in shambles despite us being at the end of a rebuild. Since then, Treliving has found Andersson, Kylington, Mangiapane, Dube, Fox, etc outside of the first round. He added Valimaki and Tkachuk with his first round picks. He has also quietly developed a strong prospect pool.
- When he took over the roster our top two Cs were Backlund and Stajan. Hudler was our ice time leader. Our most productive line was Cammalleri-Backlund-Byron and our most common line was Cammalleri-Stajan-Stempniak. In addition to locking in our young core for a reasonable cap hit, he also added core players like Lindholm, Hanafin, and Markstrom while surrounding them with good depth players.
I could go on. The team is MUCH better then it was when he took the reigns.
What some are saying is Treliving hasn't been able to take the team to the next level. And that is fair. We have only made it to the second round once with him, and generally we haven't looked good in the playoffs. Some of that is out of Trelivings hands. (Every elite team acquired elite players high up in the draft and we haven't been gifted in the draft lottery. Its great to get Monahan at 6, but MacKinnon went at 1). But he owns some criticism. |
It wasn't even close to the end of a rebuild, it was at the very early stages, or at least is should have been. Treliving decided to cut the rebuild short and start trading futures shortly after thinking that he had a solid core in place already. Enough with the excuses, he was handed a pretty clean slate, this is his team.