Treliving built a pretty decent team, and made some mistakes along the way (Hamonic and Neal, mainly). But 2022 Flames were an upper echelon team. They didn't get it done in the POs, but that's a function of a lot of things that went wrong.
The preivous off season, with players deciding to go elsewhere (some at the last minute), he decided, or was told, or both, to push his chips in and still go for it. So he did: Hence Kadri, Huberdeau, Weegar. At some point you push chips in. Vegas did it last year. TB did it previously. When you go all in, sometimes you lose.
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