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Originally Posted by Bingo
I liked the guy.
With Conroy marking his territory though it has opened my eyes to the fact that Murray Edwards may not have been to blame for some of the direction that we've seen in recent years.
But I always judge GMs based on what I think of the moves they made when they made them, and it was hard to be too upset with a lot of the major moves that Treliving made (my opinion). He bet on a core that couldn't get it done, but I honestly thought they were building something that was going to compete year over year for a half decade.
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With time having passed, I actually think the opposite of this.
He kept throwing bad money out the window trying to support a core with veterans that were outright bad. He blew precious dollars and assets on things he didn't need but believed he did. The organization as a whole didn't properly embrace their young players (and that seems to be a big shift with Connie already).
Bennett was kicked around and never given the opportunity to own a role.
Tkachuk's impact was muted until his final season here, and he should have been given the Captaincy.
Valimaki was driven out of the organization.
That's three first round picks (two quite high) that had impacts limited by the organization, and one outright driven out of the organization (coaching counts).
They brought in Hamonic, Brouwer, Neal, Smith, and Elliott to support the core and all it did was screw things up. Probably comes to the general impatience of Tree (or Tree + Ownership?)