I still maintain Trelivings biggest mistake was extending Sutter AND the big contract extensions. Treliving had no insight into how this team would mesh coming into this season and its apparent this year under Sutter is going to be a tough ride as our skill guys to replace the outgoing ones aren't gelling right.
He should have picked one or the other. If extending the players was priority there was no need to extend Sutter because right now we could have let him go and found someone who can do something with this team as is. If he had picked just extending Sutter we could have flipped Huberdeau, Weegar etc and built up for next year. Now we're wasting a year of primes of an older core we've brought in. If Treliving fires Sutter now after a 3 year extension he likely gets canned himself. Be prepared to have a frustrating season as I dont see Treliving being able to do much as he's in self preservation mode. He over played his hand and now were in a catch-22.
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