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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

Which likely means the meddling narrative is a pile of crap. Again, Treliving admitted he had circled back to Sutter when he hired Ward and Sutter wasn't ready. That means Treliving was open to Sutter being hired, meaning no meddling involved. If Edwards got involved it may have been to cajole Sutter back into the mix on behalf of the team, but Treliving had already made the contact and expressed desire to have Sutter back. That is not meddling if the GM was the one who made initial contact. Treliving got what he wanted and got the coach he tried to bring back.

Ownership has reportedly given Treliving everything he wanted to stay, including carte blanche to fire Sutter if desired. He turned that down. Frankly, I think Treliving took a look at his own work and realized there was no path forward for being a Stanley Cup contender with what he put together and the future outlook was not good. He elected to step away based on the lack of future he established in the system. The lack of draft picks is really going to become evident in the next three years when we need the cost controlled players to get us over the hump and they aren't there because of the picks bled for useless players at the deadlines. Those chickens are about to come home to roost, so the guy who was responsible elected to fly the coop. No one meddled in those decisions or moves.

Impressive conjecture.