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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think Treliving is dumping the Flames.
When you put a team together that has most of the hockey world thinking you're a top five cup contender, as a GM you did your job ... especially given the exodus circumstances.
What happens from there is on the coach and the players.
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There is a lot of truth in this. It's almost a Moneyball kind of scenario, the team as assembled on paper should win, but they aren't being played in a manner that allows that.
The most worrying thing is that the Sutter extension hasn't even kicked in yet, so ownership will be loathe to make yet another change, but it seems clear that Sutter is a cancer in this organization. Radical surgery may be the only alternative available.
Yes, it's also on the players who are underperforming, but you have to think a lot of that is because they've simply checked out. Yeah, they get paid a lot of money, and they should be more professional, but when you get ground down by a humourless prick (actually, even worse, a prick who thinks he's funny), it's pretty demotivating.