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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
The people dissing Treliving's time in CGY make me laugh. The guy built by far the best Flames teams we've had in Calgary in 30 years and he did it despite a string of terrible coaching hires and having to constantly shovel #### against the tide in an undesirable market with a decrepit old arena that made the Flames outside appeal even worse.
Conny has huge shoes to fill and I'm not the least bit surprised Treliving was snapped up by another team in a millisecond.
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That's very low bar for success. And the coaching hires were on him. He did okay but let's not act like he was bringing heaps of playoff success or cups to Calgary. The Calgary Flames story didn't change much under Treliving's time.
I don't know what the ownership situation is like in Toronto but I'm not sure its going to be much easier for Treliving there, undoubtedly it's an even more difficult market than Calgary in terms of public demands and scrutiny. Will be interesting to see how he does.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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