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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
This is interesting.
If Treliving actually had the authority to fire Sutter and still choose to walk away then I look at this a bit differently.
To me that's for sure just that he thinks there will be a better opportunity in a better market (Easier to attract players to, no ownership involvement) this summer.
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Originally Posted by Itse
Why do people feel a need to make up reasons for why Treliving is gone?
The guy just isn't very good. He kept betting the house on bad hands and kept losing, and now he left us with a non-playoff team that somehow has 18 players signed for next season with only 1.25M in projected cap space that's simultaneously missing five draft picks in the next three seasons, and we have a prospect pool that's ranked outside of top 20.
Not a good team, not a young team, no room to maneuver. No past success, no promising future, overspending and underperforming. That's the team Treliving built, and you don't keep a GM that delivers these kinds of results.
The guy talked a good talk but couldn't deliver. If there's an issue with Sutter, it's probably because Sutter can also look at the basic facts of the team and note that yeah, this is kind of a mess.
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I quoted these two posts but I suspect this boils down to what happened last summer.
When Gaudreau left and Tkachuk said he wouldn't sign here that was a turning point for the organization. They could go full rebuild or reload. They obviously went in the direction they did and now have a three guys signed to long term deals into their late 30s. Was that a Treliving choice or an owners call on the direction?
And even if it was Treliving's call - very likely in 3 years or so, Kadri and Huderdeau will be cap albatrosses even if they do turn around next year. Might just see the situation as a good time to get out before the worm really turns.