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Originally Posted by Jay Random
More like, the GMs who happen to bet on the right guys look like they are great at their jobs. Remember Ken Holland before he became a no-good bum?
So which GM predicted in 2019 that the cap would flatline for two years because of a global pandemic? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Hey, some guys get lucky and some guys do their homework and get it right. Sometimes mistakes happen, but you can’t make too many of them because it just sets you back. I’m not going to turn this thread into some detailed debate + analysis on Treliving’s history as Flames’ GM. I’m just here to say that it would’ve been a damn good idea to sign Tkachuk and Mangiapane to long term deals because I certainly thought that was going to be the case for a while until it ended up not happening. I was actually pretty dumbfounded when it went the other way, especially with Mangiapane. It’s just my opinion though and there’s nothing that can change history at this point, so it is what it is.
As for the cap space, I don’t know why any GM would just conclude that the cap will go up a certain number and that they’re safe to gamble. I would actually expect most GMs by nature, to be very risk adverse. So you should plan based on worse case scenarios and we saw that happen even before the pandemic. The cap was suppose to rise from $79.5M to $83M (link below), but it ended up well under at $81.5M. So, this kind of stuff happens and GMs should be able to adapt. An unanticipated cap number isn’t really a free pass to make a bunch of mistakes (generally speaking).