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Originally Posted by Bingo
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.
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To be clear by flavour of the month it’s just my surmising based on the need to win over other GM’s. It’s not a problem that he does his calls. But the amount he overpaid for such mediocrity was concerning. Just my possible misguided opinion that it was his ego driving it. Even while on the Isles he wasn’t a top 2 on most teams but he bought into the hype.