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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
They are talking about high priced rentals.
Tre has never acquired a high priced rental, just depth pieces.
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In Treliving's defense (ew):
2015 Flames shouldn't have been buyers, that was a deep draft with talented players available at 15th They did add Sam Bennett for the playoffs, which made a difference. Adding Schlemko on waivers was a bigger add than it got credit for, honestly thought his play for us saved the season.
2017 Flames had their top six working to perfection - that was the year 3M was created and Ferland was scoring breakaways on prime Crosby. The best adds they could have made were on the blueline where they needed a defenseman to pair with Brodie. They barely scraped into the playoffs that year as a wildcard. The Stone aqcuisition was sneaky good, and actually the Brodie-Stone pair performed admirably in the playoffs - they had better underlying numbers against Anaheim than, for instance the Josi-Ellis pair did - and Nashville's top 4 was considered elite that year. So you have to give Treliving credit. Trading away 17th overall is never a smart move. Same spot Kyle Connor was drafted two years prior.
2019 Flames had the best case. We
all wanted Stone. It didn't happen. Tre tried to get Zucker to upgrade on Frolik. Zucker nixed it. I thought the Fantenberg trade was a decent depth decision similiar to adding Schlemko in 2015, but I wasn't expecting Peters to scratch Kylington the rest of the way.
2020 Flames were
bad under Geoff Ward. I honestly had to do a double take every time they managed to hang around in a wildcard spot while Winnipeg gained on them.
If you ask me that team should have been sellers at the deadline - they were not playing good hockey under Ward, they weren't firmly in a spot, and they hadn't signed TJ Brodie to an extension. If anything, keeping Brodie as an "own rental" was as reckless a decision as throwing away a first for a rental, given how bad that team looked. The goalies were about the only thing you couldn't complain about that year. But Tre still went after Forbort (good add IMO) and Gustaffsson (IMO unecessary, Forbort-Kylington could have been a far more balanced pair, but Gudtafsson
did produce so whatever). The covid bubble was probably the only reason that team participated in the playoffs. I would have had them ultimately missing out if not for a worldwide pandemic, while getting nothing for TJ Brodie.