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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
I didn't have to foresee some very particular events impacting player value to be able to predict that they overachieved after that 2nd overall finish and believe that was the time to extract value with a shakeup. Collapsing to an 8th seed was enough to indicate that perhaps some change was necessary before their value declined. It doesn't matter how that value ended up declining.
Plenty of people were worried that the league had figured out Gaudreau after that series; that Monahan was perhaps a bit of a coattail rider with some injury concerns; that age was not on Giordano's side (although Seattle ended up making that decision on Treliving's behalf). This scenario, no matter how the details eventually unfolded, did not sneak up on us.
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So you did see the future then?
I think the collapse to the 8th seed (are you calling that the case in the play in?) would have been too late.
Would have had to be right after the Colorado series, but even that would have been too late potentially too as I think Monahan was hurt then too wasn't he?
What I thought ... that Monahan and Gaudreau would be dominant regular season players, but had a lot to learn/evolve to take that to the playoffs, but luckily some good moves was already building out a more playoff ready top line in Lindholm and Tkachuk. If that was the case you could shelter the old first line more and still have solid scoring depth.
But then I can't see the future. Shame Treliving can't either. Huge advantage!