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Originally Posted by neo45
Brad looked like a good GM for about a one year stretch in between the Hamilton trade until he hired Gulutzan. Since then he has been laughably incompetent. Just look at the timeline of how Michael Stone is still on the team:
1. Brad makes a bad trade for Stone
2. Brad gives Stone a bad contract
3. Brad buyouts out the bad contract
4. Brad then keeps bringing Stone back LONGER than the bought out contract
5. After 5 seasons, 11 million dollars, two draft picks spent and one buyout Stone finally has his first good season with us and is a positive influence on our top prospect. Time to give his spot to Erik Gudbranson for 3x the cost
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While I am pretty much done with Brad at this point it is so easy to refute this post I can’t help myself.
1. How is the Stone trade bad? They gave up a third and the team won 10 games in a row after the deal and made the playoffs as he solidified the top 4 at the time
2. Agree here it added a 5th to the deal and was a bad contract that was bought out
3. This has happened with Raymond, Stone, Brouwer, Bouma and has not been ideal
4. Stone as a minimum player has been more than fine
5. I feel like Gudbransen is purely a Sutter move. It has certainly been presented as such
Treliving made his best move in 2018 in my opinion making that Hurricanes trade but I am one of those fans who is annoyed and pissed that he hasn’t been able to make a sizable trade since and all major moves involve free agency/expansion where players are coming in and leaving for nothing.
2018- huge roster shakeup - best summer in Treliving’s career despite the one brutal move that was James Neal
2019- only moves are swapping bad contracts with the Oil and swapping Smith for Talbot. Famous Kadri no trade was also this summer
2020- all free agency - Talbot, Brodie, Hamonic out, Tanev, Markstrom in
2021 - basically all free agency again and picks for players. Gio, Ryan, and a bunch of minimum guys out, Coleman, Zadorov, Gudbransen and a bunch of minimum Sutter guys in.
To me it is really the last 2 offseason a that are not acceptable for me. This team has needed a shakeup that Brad simply can’t make because he overvalued his players and that overvaluing of players has resulted in the rebuild being sped up and ultimately failing.