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Originally Posted by TOfan
The Hamonic trade didn’t work out as planned, clearly. But I don’t think it was misguided in its attempt to improve the team. At the time Hamonic was a 27 year old top 4 RHS D with three years left on his deal at a reasonable cap hit. A 1st and two 2Nds was a lot to give up but the reported offer from the leafs was a 1St and JVR who at the time had one year left on his deal. One year of JVR seems to check out as it relates to the value of two 2nds in my mind.
What this was intended to do was to give the Flames a top 4 of Gio-Hamilton-Brodie-Hamonic. I don’t think it was a bad bet at the time to think that should have been an upper tier top 4 in the league. It should have been better. Unfortunately Flames fans are used to this; Regher-Phaneuf-Bouwmeester.
Bare in mind The Flames were likely anticipating a step forward from Bennett Tkachuk among others.
It’s curious reading comments by many here deriding Treliving for not making a move to help the team, even if it mean’s overpaying, now. They seem to be the same ones who are pointing to previous moves as the reason why he should be fired.
I think Treliving’s job is very much on the line this year. Last year I didn’t see any way the Flamrs were going to fire him with term left on his deal and the pandemic obviously effecting operating costs.
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Harmonic had one great year for the Islanders. He was very average the year after that. There were plenty of discussion of his performance but it was shadowed by his nice guy image. Isles fans love him for his image than his plays.
It’s ok for a fan to miss that but for a professional team to misjudged him is a disaster. It’s a big screw up by Treliving, it’s not even debatable.
Also the complains about his inactivity is for the last few years after the Hamonic trade. Don’t point to his trades before that.