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Originally Posted by fleury
It’s not black and white. He’s done some really good things but his deals involving high picks has been atrocious IMO. His flavour of the month deals like overpaying for Hamonic, speaks to more of an ego and doing whatever it takes to ensure he wins. Normally I wouldn’t have a problem with a desire to outdo someone but when he overpaid for some mediocre players, it killed the possibility of sustainability. On one hand I’ve been happy with his drafting but again, his inability to get high end talent, with handcuffing deals, very challenging. If they keep him I hope he’s learned from his problems.
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GMs make calls.
You hope they're right more often than they're wrong.
It's not about "flavour of the month" or ego, it's doing his job.
He saw Hamonic as a player that wanted to move west (finally a favourable market advantage) on a great contract, and with a pedigree that had Treliving thinking he would be ideal for completing the top four.
He was wrong.
The game was changing, and although Hamonic was a warrior, he was more of a PK guy in the 5 slot than a true top four defenseman.