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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
The only rough look here is the continued support and defense of a general manager that did everything in his power to run this team into the ground and then ran away to Toronto leaving the next guy in the lurch to clean up that mess.
The rough look is ignoring the fact that a manager's job is to leave an organization in a better stead than which they received it. Your hero left behind a roster in disarray, a salary broken structure, a minor league system bereft of prospects, a deficit of draft picks to address that concern, and a dysfunctional culture which required a purge. Even when the body of evidence continues to mount where it is pretty much universally accepted that Treliving left the team in the lurch and in a horrible situation, the defense and admiration continues.
Treliving's inability to hire a coach and waste years of player's careers, ignored. His inability to develop and stick to plan, disregarded. His terrible track record of bringing in free agents and overpaying them, forgiven. His inability to recognize the talent that needed to be kept long term and focus on paydays for overachievers which contributed to the skewed salary structure, all but forgotten. Treliving's lack of ability to distinguish which players who were going to be difference makers and make smart deals, marginalized. His habit of bleeding picks for useless veterans who never moved the needle and then allowed to walk away for nothing at the end of their contract, seemingly omitted from the memory. Worst of all, his moves in his final year which really hobbled the organization, in a Kathy Bates sort of way, completely ignored, even when the evidence of his incompetence is measured at every turn by other moves happening around him and the negativity landing on the team rather than the individual who put those moves into action. The continued defense of it all is insulting to the fanbase to be quite frank, and we don't deserve it.
That's a rough look, on all levels.
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Geez, didn’t you say I was the one who was triggered?
Look, you can’t go one week here without bringing Treliving up, multiple times. He wasn’t a bad GM. Did he make poor decisions, yep. Guess what, they all do. Every single one of them and you conveniently like to ignore the direction ownership has on the team and what they do.
Meanwhile your dog sh*t trade proposals over the years don’t really seem to suggest you would be any better at the job, or have any clue of how to do it. Best part is there’s no indication you’re capable of acknowledging you don’t really know what you’re talking about. Again, I’m not sure if there’s a bigger self assured blowhard on this forum.
Mentioned this in a thread yesterday but, contrary to your opinion, the Flames were left in a fairly favourable position. I would say a whole lot better than many GM’s leave their teams. Conroy inherited a team with 7 UFA’s, plus several other assets worth considerable value (Markstrom being one), and a decent crop of young players. Evidently the cupboards are t quite as bare as you’ve been telling us, another indication you don’t know what you don’t know. Conroy has a fantastic opportunity to shape this team for the next decade plus without having to take a team that’s teetering on the competitive window left wondering ‘should we or shouldn’t we?’ The direction was clear and now it’s Conroy’s time.
I’m sure you’ll choose to not see thr situation for what it actually is and continue to prattle on about that dastardly Treliving left us a huge mess from which we’ll never recover. You’ll blame him for as long as you can, I’m sure.
Anyway, keep paddling down stream while patting yourself on the back, Lanny. So bold…..