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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
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.
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Except Treliving did in fact back himself into a corner. Why are you holding onto Frolik when you could be shedding some cap and giving one of your all star wingers an 8 year deal? I firmly believe Tkachuk would have been willing to accept an 8 year deal starting with an 8 and we'd still have him. Instead, Treliving, as others have mentioned, wasn't really a guy that thought about the future, he was a "now" GM. Hence why we always spent up to the cap with middling players and our stars getting hurt for raises in the long run. It wasn't until we lost Johnny, traded Tkachuk, and dumped Monahan for a 1st that we finally had cap space again, only for Treliving to use it all up for Huberdeau and Weegar's contracts. Lucic's contract finally expiring? Doesn't matter, Huberdeau takes it all. We're in the same mess, and it's because of Treliving.