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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
I find CP is generally a year or two from recognizing the obvious. Took forever to realize they held on to Iginla too long. Took two years to get that Treliving had constructed a house of cards and the team was rotten to the core. Too two years to realize Treliving was a terrible GM and only once he wasn't "our guy" just how bad he was. The next bitter realization is going to be the minor league system and development system is in bad shape and we're about to feel it. Treliving's incompetence hurt the prospect pool and we're going to feel that the most as we hope for a retool only to find there is a gap in the pool where we need those prospects stepping in. Sometimes what looks so obvious for some isn't so obvious for the majority until it starts to unfold in front of their faces.
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Agreed. I'd argue Treliving was very good at some things while terrible at others. His dolling out of bad contracts for UFAs, while dealing picks for guys he had to get to beat out others, was terrible. To most I think he comes across humble, but behind the scenes I think he was driven by ego. When even Conroy alludes to him making deals in isolation, it's a bad sign that the guy is doing things solo. His first two moves as Leafs GM to get "snot" (whatever tf that means to him), is shooting him in the foot from day 1 with the signings of Reeves and Klingberg. I thought the Leafs is a situation he couldn't mess up but already giving out bad contracts is something he has to do.
Anyway, I agree with everything you said, CP does take some time to realize the obvious. But I did think our drafting has been good, no?