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Originally Posted by ComixZone
True, but Treliving is the GM and it's his job to build the team. Of course there's input from Sutter - but let's look at players that you could "blame" Sutter for perhaps influencing Treliving on:
Richardson - 13th forward
Lewis - 12th forward
Zadarov - 6th defenceman
Gudbranson - 5th defenceman
It's not like Sutter was out there influencing massively important roster spots. Treliving also has a long history of bringing in absolute rubbish to fill out the bottom of his rosters, so it's not like Sutter's "influence" was preventing him from doing his job any better than he usually does it...
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The bottom of most NHL rosters is filled with “rubbish.” Regulars on teams around the Flames in the conference standings:
NSH: Thomas Novak, Michael McCarron, Matt Benning.
ANA: Derek Grant, Simon Beniot, Buddy Robinson.
STL: James Neal, Jake Walman, Robert Bortuzzo.
The Flames’ problem isn’t the bottom of the roster. Or the top line. It’s that mid-roster players have either declined (Monahan, Backlund) or failed to progress (Hanifin, Andersson, Dube). Not having a single defenceman in the top 50 in the position doesn’t help.
People expecting Treliving to fix this roster with a mid-season trade are in for disappointment. Those kinds of trades went out with the Discman. In today’s NHL, the roster you ice on opening night is the one you finish the season with.