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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino
I think Sutter is a good coach with the right personal,; But to have better success Sutter needs a few guys with elite skill to make his system work. I think bringing Sutter back and trying to patch things up is too risky. What happens if we have another year of the same? You are not going to entice quality players to come here that way. I would promote Conroy, move Treliving upstairs and bring in Mitch Love. At least you have a whole team working together and Conroy can lean on Trelivings experience. Treliving knows the Flames personal and he would likely support Conroy"s vision. It is a lot easier to tell ownership that this is what Conroy would like to do, as opposed to Treliving asking for it for himself. I think working closer to Edwards in this way would allow a more dynamic team, that would lean away from a "win now" approach while embracing a more traditional team building concept.
Lots of problems and issue we see can be resolved through communication,; If Edwards believes in Treliving then he is going to support him. That is only good business. If Treliving were to move up, I believe he would have much more control over those areas that were difficult for him to access.previously. Moving up would be an excellent career move for Treliving and could lead to other opportunities in the future at the NHL level.
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Enticing players to come here from elsewhere is why this team is constantly mediocre. This strategy works when you maybe need one more player to put your team over the top, but not actually as a strategy to build your roster. The narrative needs to shift from always signing or trading for external talent, to valuing what we have and developing it to the best the team possibly can.
Allow Wolf, Pelletier, Coronato, Duehr to play prominent roles on the team next season. I'm not a big proponent of gifting roles to players, but we have seen in small samples that all of these youngsters are NHL players (and better than several veterans on the team) and the time to let them run with it is now if this team is going to turn things around.
Also, if Lindholm and Backlund are not fully committed long term, you ship them out asap to maximize value as they are both on terrific deals for any contending teams and would likely return pretty meaningful draft capital or prospects.