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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Yeah, Treliving's weaknesses were coaching hires, struggled to nail down a #1 goalie and bad high price UFA signings.
Now he has Sutter, Markstrom and his last three big UFA signings were Tanev, Markstrom and Coleman.
Plus he hasn't made a crappy trade since the Hamonic misstep, and that was like 4 years ago.
The last two full non-COVID seasons his teams have won the division with 106 and 111 points.
The guy has learned a lot, seems to be well respected and the rabbit he pulled out of the hat this off season from hell is impressive.
If this core can't get over the hump and win the Cup in the next few seasons and they decide to rebuild, I would 100% want him to be the one tearing it down and giving it another go.
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Additional to this - Let’s not forget you can’t compare his moves to the perfect optimal move in each situation that we can look back on- you have to compare him to his peers and I think he far exceeds what his peers do.
Posters talk about results orientation assessment of Brad. And it’s a fair point to bring up.
But hockey isn’t a typical business. It’s got more fluke, luck and other factors. Not to mention profitability is 100% discounted by the fans.
He’s keeping the team competing year after year - which is probably more important to ownership then a championship (not that a championship isn’t important and also increases profits). I don’t know for sure but I don’t think edwards would of agreed to tear it down this year and have crap years for a much higher chance at the cup 5 years from now
Fans and owners priority’s don’t always go hand in hand. He resports to the ownership.
Let’s be frank - if you’re categorizing the flames as a business- they are a steady state business