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Originally Posted by midniteowl
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.
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That's because you cherry picked bad trades, let's look back at some of his other trades:
March 2 2015 Baertschi for pick that was Rasmus Andersson
July 27 2015 trades two thirds for Kylington (One turned into Adin Hill)
June 23 2018 Hamilton, Ferland, and Fox for Lindholm and Hanafin (Two players who didn't want to be here for a pretty great return)
July 28, 2021 Zadorov for a 3rd
Feb 14, 2022 Toffoli for two scrubs a first and a fifth
also got Vladar for a 3rd as well.
He was better than average when it came to trades, not great with retaining or building pick equity and free agents there are some hits but a lot of whiffs.
Last year when we traded for Huberdeau and Weegar more than half the forum was gargling his ball sack, how many threads are there where he was being worshipped?
It's always strikes me as funny how we tear down players/management on other teams until they become Flames, then they are gods and vice versa when they leave.