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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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I hated this deal at the time because it seemed like a lot to give up for a player who would be our 4th D and offered no offensive upside or helped our transition game.
Flames at the time were built as a small, fast, transition team. Now I guess they looked and said "We need the next Regehr" since we were missing that role, but this is what it seems BT is always doing. Trying to improve our weakness instead of building on our strength (And at great asset cost)
It was another example of BT trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Also, I feel he really got into a bidding war as he was very concerned about Vancouver or the Oilers getting Hamonic. This also seems to be a trend for BT.
Why he is at all worried about those two teams is beyond me. The best strategy would be to run the other direction whenever they showed interest in a player