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Originally Posted by Macman
With the team playing well and winning I'm thinking that Brad Treliving has actually done a good job and has been a good GM. I though he would be fired.
Bringing Darryl Sutter back as coach certainly didn't hurt. You can also look at his player signings and see that they're good players and good contracts too.
I was listening to the Fan 960 this afternoon and they were talking about the Oilers and how bad their roster is after their top 2 players. May not be a high bar but still.
That trade for Elias Lindholm and Noah Hanifin for Dougie Hamilton, Michael Ferland and Adam Fox was a good trade in hindsight and as good as you could have possible gotten.
Lindholm and Hanifin were also RFAs I believe.
Elias Lindholm has also become a better player than he ever was and is about to have his 3rd 20+ goal season with the Flames, he had 19 last year and didn't score 20 prior to coming to the Flames.
Then there's Jacob Markstrom, Tanev, Zadorov.
Plus he drafted Matthew Tkachuk if I'm not mistaken.
So there's a good body of work there that seems to out weigh the bad.
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It's become quite apparent IMO, that Treliving's biggest weakness was hiring a head coach.
And that looks to have caused this core to spin it's wheels through the majority of it's supposed contention window.
Hopefully Sutter can salvage what's left of it, which could be just another 3-4 months if Gaudreau walks.