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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
With Treliving at the healm? Good luck with that. Man I hope Treliving gets the job there, just so the Leafs never challenge for anything in the next decade.
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Treliving did a lot of things well. Drafting and a good subset of trades comes to mind. Where he messed up a bunch of times were his terrible outlier FA signings and wanting to get every flavour of the month on the trade market. The second someone became popular (ie: Hamonic), he seemed to want in and pay a high price to get there. So with him at the helm in Toronto, for them I'd worry that he'd try to solve deficiencies on the FA market, which, honestly Toronto has done a great job of avoiding. In a cap world you can't make those mistakes with long term deals. Dubas realized there were core players that were worth the right contract (dollar and term), and there were supplemental pieces that on the open market could get more, but were worth letting go simply because of flexibility required in the cap world.