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Originally Posted by Poe969
That to me is the issue. There was no way he was going to replace Gaudreau and Tkachuk. 0% chance. The team was going to get weaker regardless and wasn't going to be able to compete. They had a lot of players with good trade value while there was only 1 star UFA. And there was an extremely strong draft class with likely a generational player at the top of the list.
A rebuild was staring them in the face at the perfect time and Treliving shoukd have convinced the owners to go that route. Instead, the team got older, less talented, and more expensive.
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Saying they 'weren't going to be able to compete' is hyperbole. Despite EVERYTHING that went wrong, they darn near got in the playoffs. That's in spite of an awful year from their #1 offensive player, terrible goaltending and a laughably bad overtime/shootout record.
Moreover how do you know that BT didn't try to argue for a re-build and it simply wasn't something the owners would bend on.