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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
The Good
Brad Treliving is a quality man and a solid human being. His heart was always in the right spot and he loved the hockey club. Most importantly I think he really loved the community and being part of Calgary.
The Bad
Focus and planning. The Flames just never appeared to have a long-term plan, and if they did, couldn't stick to it. "Just getting in" was the plan and it really didn't work.
The Ugly
Picking coaches and off ice staff for the hockey club. Treliving put together a really mediocre organization that always managed to find the middle of the road, never really great and never really terrible, just really mediocre.
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I think much of this applies to the organization as a whole for the last 30 years and not entirely just Brad.
If you grade his reign on results, it was a sub par run for the GM for sure. But it does need to be noted that he did suffer some unique and major challenges with Covid, Gaudreau/Tkachuk defecting, and the Peters scandal.
I have not been the biggest fan of his for the vast majority of his time here - I think he gets far too much credit for the good and not near enough flak for the bad - but you can't deny that he is a quality person and gave it his all while here. The organization would be in a much worse place had he never been hired, which is scary going into this new period and where the wrong person may take the team.