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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Are you for real? Managers are paid to "know" what is happening in their organizations, especially when it comes to direction and strategy of those interests. Treliving is paid to know what his players are likely to do and make decisions to maintain the long-term viability of the team. Not being able to recognize that there is a huge potential for your best player to walk is a major failing, let alone not understanding that TWO of your best players are prepared to leave at the same time. Again, this isn't like some surprise thing. People on this site, people in our media, people in other teams' media, have been convinced for over two years that Gaudreau was preparing to bolt. How the #### does the General Manager miss something this obvious? It is his job to know and take appropriate measures. He buried his head in the sand and hoped this would all go away if he could just offer enough cash. That was a gross miscalculation. The warning signs were there two years ago and the appropriate response was to be proactive and get something before being left with nothing but your pants around the team's collective ankles. He should have recognized what the player's motivations were, especially when he couldn't get a deal negotiated before the NTC kicked in, but he ignored all the warning signs. This in on the general manager. Plain and simple.
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Why are we still carrying on with the fantasy that Treliving had no idea of the risks of taking either of these guys to the wire with their contract negotiations?
We say the warning signs were there but the actual signs right to the end and the information come out since makes pretty clear Gaudreau made his call at the last minute. And you can even see a pattern, considering he then did the same thing with NJ before signing with Columbus at the last minute.
This is just so over dramatic compared to anything we actually know. I don’t know why making stuff up and painting this entirely bogus picture of Treliving’s incompetence is something worth doing. What do we get out of this?
I get that some of you guys have never even been in proximity to a proper business deal in your life, but risk is sometimes involved. You hope you minimised the risk as much as possible, but as long as the risk is there it remains a completely possible outcome. And, I know it’s a shock, but sometimes you still go after something with big risk because the payoff if it works is that worth it.
The risk didn’t pay off with Gaudreau. It happens. They don’t seem to be willing to take that risk with Tkachuk. Why? Could be a number of reasons.
You can blame Treliving for going for it with what they had if you want, but I think it was the smart play.