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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Well I am someone that suggested he was average. Average GM’s seem to get employed all the time and with Treliving’s name, I’m not surprised he got a job quickly.
Your point about experience is definitely valid but after 9 years, I still don’t see a ton of evidence of learning from his mistakes and I personally am not too thrilled about the spot the club is in. I do think Treliving learned a lot about GMing a rebuilding club which would make him valuable. But that’s not the situation here, nor Toronto. I sure hope Conroy doesn’t need 9 years to learn the ropes.
I’m not to worried about the Leafs capitalizing on his experience with the Flames. Treliving is definitely skilled at extracting value when selling an asset so I hope Conroy stays away from targeting any Leafs. But if there is a player on the Flames that BT covets, he has shown time and again he will pay a premium. So I really hope he wants someone here.
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I agree with you on Treliving was an average GM. Let's look back on some of his trades and signings.
On 2014, he got Bollig from Chicago for a 3rd pick at the draft. That's a player Chicago had to trade to be compliance and still got a 3rd round pick from him. They should pay us something to take on Bollig's contract.
On July 1, 2016, he signed Brouwer to 4 years $16M contract. Just 2 years into that contract, he had to buy Brouwer out. Leaving the team with dead cap hit for 4 years. Did he learn from the Bollig trade?
July 2, 2018, he double down on Neal, giving Neal a 5 years contract worth $28.75M. Ended up had to trade Neal to the Oilers for a anchor for anchor trade. Did he learn from the Brouwer signing?
June 28, 2017, he spent stunningly a 1st and 2 seconds for Hamonic. Islanders GM at the time must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Then, he traded Monahan and a FIRST to Montreal because he wants to sign Kadri and needed to cap space. So it's pretty much a 1st and Monahan for Kadri.
And his coaches hires were horrific. Because he hired GG and didn't know how to develop Bennett and at the end he had to trade Bennett.
All and all, I'm not saying he is a horrible GM, he's just average.