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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I am not going to post my feelings about whether Treliving should be fired. I have made my views known in the offseason and replacing him at this exact moment is not going to happen.
But I am bracing for the usual arguments about how you don't want your GM making a deal for the sake of it, no deal is better than a bad deal etc.
But thing is, the GM position is like every other position in pro hockey. It's a competition and more often than not, you need to be better than the other person if you expect your team to be successful. Treliving is responsible for his decisions on the players he is pursuing. Stone, Zucker, Kadri, Eichel (and some goalies in there too IIRC). He obviously recognizes a need on this team but hasn't been able to get it done.
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Stone wasn't going to sign in Calgary so I don't count him. Can you say that the team would be in a better place today with Zucker or Kadri? I don't know if either of those players move the needle that much as they are both more of the same good but not elite talents the organization already has plenty of. Eichel isn't as cut and dry because of his neck issue, surgery, and the fact that it's pretty clear the Flames didn't have a single prospect in their system that the Sabres liked better than Krebs.