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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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I agree with this and have been on that wagon for a long time. But I also acknowledge it is the most difficult thing to actually change without doing a full reset.
COL kinda shows that it is possible, but we can probably all agree that transitioning the keys to Landeskog/MacKinnon/Rantanen was probably an easier/safer bet than Lindholm/Bennett/Tkachuk (though I'm definitely still curious how a pivot starting around TDL 2020 might have worked).
The bets were too big too soon for a group that hadn't particularly 'earned' it and we've been left chasing our tail. At least we're not the only ones - IMO OTT has been doing the exact same thing.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Regardless of what anyone on here thinks, the organization obviously believes that losing him is a failure, seeing as how they went balls to the wall to keep him.
It was the team's belief that JG at $10.5 per over 8 years was the right way to go so I get why people are disappointed.
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Perhaps true, or they thought keeping him even at a smelly AAV was still the best asset mgmt option (go hard for this 1-2 yr window then possibly trade).