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Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta
In many ways, despite the hate that seems to be bubbling up more and more for Treliving's work, he did leave the team set up for a re-tool with all the contracts expiring this year and next. I said it in the summer that the Flames were in a good spot, and it was not accidental. He had a parachute with the cord ready to pull if the team wasn't performing. Have to give him credit for that.
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It's always impossible to judge a GM from our seats fully as you don't know what marching orders they are getting from their own boss but I think everybody liked his work until the one terrible summer. Before that I think he was held in pretty high regard for what he'd done and is being judged a bit harshly because of how bad that summer is looking in retrospect.
He built a great team the years before that had a legit chance to win before they folded up against the oilers and I think that group had a legit chance to win the cup which is all you can ask for as a fan.
But make no mistake, what followed was a disaster of a summer for the flames franchise that they won't dig themselves out of fully for years. Conroy has some pieces to work with but if Tkachuk had been traded for a younger star, Gaudreau had been moved for assets earlier and he just swallowed the last year of the deal with Monahan, the team could be in a much stronger position and it was an absolute disaster from an asset management perspective. As fans, there's still lots to be excited about with the direction and we move on now but I understand why some see it as being a big black mark on his resume.