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Originally Posted by Bingo
well you don't want an unconfident GM.
I don't see Treliving as having a huge ego.
He's just a thorough guy that digs into everything.
He overpaid on Hamonic but his single biggest mistake was betting on Gaudreau and Monahan to be an elite core.
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Agreed with respect to GJ and SM. It’s a fair question to ask about evidence on other things that have gone wrong or he overpaid and off the top of my head James Neal and the price paid for assets involving firsts in general were a problem because they handcuffed the team not long after where it prevented the possible pipeline from being better. I was on record to say the price for Toffoli last year was fair in a crappy draft year but it became pretty apparent early on he was a second line talent, and with a mediocre core it wasn’t a good move in hindsight. Hamonic was purely a media driven frenzy at the time. Year after year we see those media hyped guys and it seems like he wants them all. Eg: PLD. I’m not fully against the guy but there seem to me many times he had an overconfident thought that his core could carry them in the playoffs at the expense of picks and it’s never worked out.