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Originally Posted by Flamesfan05
Treliving makes more changes than most teams. He is a hard working GM. He makes good trades
Somehow team remains mediocre though.
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It’s because he has fallen into the age old dumbass flames franchise mentality.
Let’s look at all the playoff teams this year , and see who their top 1-2 game breaking forwards are:
East:
Bos - Bergeron, Krefeld
Tor - Mathew’s, Tavares
Tbl - kucherov, point, stamkos
Car - necas, aho
Njd - Hughes, hischier
Nyr - zibanejad
Pit - Crosby, Malkin
Nyi - horvat, Nelson, barzal
West:
Dal - Robertson, hintz
Min - n/a
Col - Mackinnon
Veg - eichel
Lak - kopitar
Sea - …. Benitez’s
Edm - mcdavid, draisatl, nugent-Hopkins
Wpg - sheiffle, dubois
Notice how almost every single one of these teams have an actual playmaking/play-driving center that is arguably the best or second best player on the entire forward group?
Leave it the flames to build teams based on wingers for at least the last 20+ years.
Just because we have a guy who plays on the top line doesn’t make him a #1 center. Lindholm isn’t that guy. Kadri was never meant to be that guy. When it’s all said and done backlund might be the best overall C over those two guys, as a 3rd line C.
You don’t find #1 centers in free agency. You don’t land them via trades. It’s highly unlikely to find them outside the top of the draft.
Flames best shot at getting that elusive piece was in the last rebuild which yielded monahan/Bennett… just because it failed last time doesn’t mean that they must avoid this route. Looking at the above list, it is almost still the only way.
But here we are cheering for a team built around Huberdeau, being led in scoring by toffolli.
I applaud treliving for this offseason, however, taking the Florida deal over the rumoured Carolina deal that was centred (pun intended) around necas should be a fireable offence. I’m sure they thought weegar put the Florida offer as the best in their eyes, but flames have proven to be able to land too talent on the wings, or defence via trades/Ufa/drafting, using a prime trade chip in tkachuk and not using it on a young top center is unacceptable.