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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Quick. Outline what Treliving has done that was "planned." Then outline the moves that fell into his lap. Gaudreau? Already dropped into his lap. Tkachuk? A no brainer that dropped into his lap (thanks Vancouver!). Your turn. Tell me where Treliving had a plan or used those Jedi mind tricks to make this team better.
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The Hamilton trade for a RW/C and a defenceman to take Hamilton’s place. Planned in reaction to the stalling of Bennett at C. Pretty sure he thought of that one himself. Then he signed each to great contracts.
Signing a strong defensive D and the best available G.
Traded non-developing guys like Sven and Granlund, picked up picks which turned into players.
Those are two examples.
You think a plan is some immutable blueprint. That’s not how GMs work. They have an idea of how they want their team to play, and work little by little to get there. And half the time things don’t work and they have to react. There’s lots of evidence that Treliving has a concept of how the team should look a new what it needs. Execution of that concept has been lacking because he hasn’t successfully identified the right players in a bunch of instances - Neal, Hamonic, Brouwer.