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Originally Posted by browna
I'll disagree. So much doom and gloom around here. Yeah this year sucked becuase the team really should've made the playoffs on the ice. The off ice stuff has gotten magnified as a result and the media has whipped many I to believing that these are such dire times. I'll argue it was much worse when Treliving took over, by a mile.
A roster that should've made the playoffs, but below average goaltending, down years for some players, but even still, getting the league average in OT performance and they are in and would've given Vegas a run for the money in R1.
A roster mostly intact for next year. The chance to also work with and pick their coach. An ownership group who has spent to the cap the last decade. Hope of a new rink so that in 3 years or so, that GM won't have that restriction in attracting players.
Again, this is a better position than the one that Treliving had given the depth the teams reputation sank to under his predecessor.
Secondly, still trying to figure out what and who a top candidate is? Most of the names we've heard interviewing in Pittsburgh as the only other spot open, have some links here too. Fine, Dubas may not come here but he's likely not going anywhere this offseason.
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From a GM standpoint I think this is a job that comes with a lot of handcuffs, even if you ignore whether or not the owners mandate winning and will block a rebuild which we will never know for sure so I will ignore for now.
It is an older team that is at best 2nd tier, not a Stanley Cup contender that has numerous tough to impossible to move contracts. While you can make some small moves it is hard to see a path where there is flexibility to improve the team in any substantial way.
The team is pretty much locked into to being mediocre for the next 5 years and hoping for a miracle play-off run. I would think as a GM it would be more appealing to come into a team that doesn't have its future as locked in as the Flames do.
Last summer for example would have been a perfect time for a new GM to come in as they had the flexibility to go for it like Tre did or potentially use Gaudreau leaving and the Tkachuk trade to try and rebuild.