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Originally Posted by GioforPM
He’s only responsible insofar as he’s the GM. Gaudreau didn’t even know what he was doing himself, and by all accounts made up his mind months and months after Treliving could do anything about it. You wanted him to trade Gaudreau the year before his big season? Or at the TDL in a year where they were 4th favorite to win the cup according to Vegas (after Gaudreau’s 3 team NTC kicked in)?
Yes, the Neal signing had fallout. But I doubt he would have (or any GM would have) offered Tkachuk more than 7 per year at the time.
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It's the GM's job to ensure he doesn't lose his best asset for nothing. He failed to do that.
Regarding Tkachuk, Ottawa signed his brother for 8 years at $8.2 mil/yr with less impressive stats. They signed Stutzle to 8 years at 8.3mil/yr with similar stats. It happens. Both of those look great now.
Treliving's results were not good over the course of 9 years. I'm surprised people are romanticizing his tenure like this.