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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Agreed. I’m actually surprised with some of the answers. Just think about what Treliving was trying to do here. He believed in his 50 win roster so much that he basically brought everyone and replaced a 115 point player with another 115 player and signed him up for 8 years. The team looked extremely deep down the middle, more so than they ever did and on paper, the team looked poised to win 50 games again.
That is until reality hit. The goaltending was atrocious and Huberdeau set a record for the biggest drop in production from year to year. It’s probably fair to say that if Hubderdeau was even a 60+ point player, the Flames would’ve been a playoff team and if he was an 80-90 point player, who knows where the Flames could’ve been.
He’s obviously not the only reason for the team’s struggles. But based on expectations, he’s probably the biggest reason why the team likely has to retool/rebuild. I mean if Huberdeau was magically replaced by a comparable winger like a Pastrnak or a Panarin, would we really be talking about rebuilding?
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It was a mistake not starting the rebuild sooner, but it was a risk worth taking at the time. Giving up that first for Monahan stings though.