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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
All true. Which is why small-market Canadian teams need to build patiently through the draft. The problem is owners who refuse to recognize that logic.
I know Winnipeg hasn’t won anything, but at least they seem to have an ownership and management group who recognize the handicaps they labour under and how they need to operate to try to find long-term success.
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I don’t blame the owners for the terrible Travis Hamonic trade. That’s on Treliving. That Lazar trade? Treliving. That Elliott trade? Treliving - there were better goalies in free agency (…literally anything would have been better than Elliott that season).
Even if the owners mandate aggression, the GM has to do a MUCH better job at being aggressive than Treliving has. In the ones mentioned above Treliving dealt a 1st round pick and four 2nd round picks for a bottom pairing defenceman (we played him as a bad top four defenceman), a 13th forward, and a goalie who was absolutely horrendous in his year here. That’s all just horrible work by Treliving.