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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
You want your GM to be smart. There’s times to negotiate hard and there’s times to pull back. If Treliving’s talent evaluation skills were stronger, then he would’ve realized that he needed to dial it back on his UFAs and increase it for his RFAs. You have to know your players and what they’re really worth.
Maybe Mangiapane and especially Huberdeau wouldn’t be so grossly overpaid or maybe Tkachuk and Gaudreau would still be Flames, who knows. But make no mistake, Treliving’s decision making is the biggest reason why this franchise is in the gutter right now.
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None of this is assured. There’s no more reason to believe that if Treliving signed Gaudreau in ‘21, or was signing the teams own free agents to more lucrative deals that the Flames would have or would be better off today. The Oilers did exactly that with Hall, Eberle, RNH etc. should Treliving have handed Sam Bennett 6x6?
Treliving deserves his fair share of responsibility but it’s far more likely the reason the Flames are in the gutter today, as you put it, is because they’re a smallish Canadian market in the middle of nowhere with an aged arena. The Flames had and will continue to have an uphill battle to keep and attract high end talent.