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Originally Posted by Toonage
My one gripe (well, one of I should say) about Treliving going to Toronto is how I'm hearing more from Toronto media about how he did such a good job with Tkachuk after beinng "backed into a corner."
Treliving backed himself into that corner though. No one ever mentions that.
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He signed a 21 year old to a bridge contract after that kid had a break out career season.
He didn't back himself into any corners. The next two seasons Tkachuks production dipped, if Treliving had signed Tkachuk to some monstrous 8 year extension based off one near point per game season the same people whining now would have been whining for two years straight after Tkachuks production dipped. That bridge contract was a perfectly reasonable move at the time, but unfortunately COVID happened and it helped tip the scales for Tkachuk to want to leave Canada.
Everybody is always a genius when they look at things in hindsight to criticize someone else.