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Originally Posted by Bingo
Nobody loved the Monahan trade. I understood it, but it felt like a steep price.
But this website has what 80 pages of people patting him on the back for the Tkachuk trade, and most saying you have to just give Huberdeau the same contract and know the last three years might suck.
Now they're all mistakes that most at the time felt were the right move?
Honestly the way Monahan's season in Montreal went after the trade was exactly why Treliving felt the need to play him. He wanted another top six and didn't think Monahan would be durable enough to do the job. In that he was right.
Just seems like a lot of over thinking and hind sight to me.
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The return Treliving got for Tkachuk was beyond expectations and was good business that could have put us in prime position to shape our future.
However, t isn’t just hindsight that sheds a light on how irresponsible it was to subsequently give an eight year contract for the highest amount in franchise history to someone who hadn’t even laced his skates for the team.
It locked us in to one option at a time we could have used the opportunity to see how Huberdeau would fit in with the team. If it wasn’t working or he wasn’t committed, we would still have had opportunity to retrieve the situation. Additionally, the optics to and the effect on other players at the club were very poor.
Yes, Treliving did well to get what he got. But when he got it, he couldn’t have managed the situation in a worse way.
Treliving was a total failure as a GM at this team. I can only hope he manages the same level of wizardry in Toronto.