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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Which makes this situation better because Treliving never seemed like he wanted to stockpile picks and prosects and always wanted vets at the bottom of the lineup. The biggest win from this year was Conroy has done both and now has tons of picks, tons of prospects and guys like Zary, Pospisil, Wolf, Coronato, Pelletier all with 30+ games in the NHL and Wolf having 15 starts in the nhl. He has more kids coming but already has a roster full of kids that got a fair number of games and Pospisil and Zary played major roles all year and responded very well.
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You're comparing current state (2024) instead of the state the team was in when Conroy took it over (2023). Conroy has done a full year's work to get to this current state and has done so with purpose. Those "tons of picks" are a result of Conroy moving his UFAs, not what he was left with. Without those moves we are weak in the pick department. Conroy deserves a ton of credit for his moves so far and what he has accomplished in his first year of managing the team. This started a year ago which is why the fair comparison is a year ago.
People are also grossly underselling the enthusiasm around that 2013 team and the youth we had coming in back then. Monahan, Brodie, Colborne, and Bouma were just breaking in. We had exceptionally high hopes for Baertschi, Wotherspoon, Granlund, Horak, Ortio, Reinhart, Agostino, Knight, Arnold, and Gaudreau, who were all knocking at the door. Hindsight should provide a warning that many of the young players we think are going to be front and center to this team in the long-term are never going to be NHL players of note.