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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
The problem in the Treliving era was never the scouts or missing on picks. It was the absolute unprecedented level of trading picks compared to almost any team in recent NHL history.
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Tanner Jeannot says hi, and asks how those five draft picks are coming along.
Seriously, though, it's not unprecedented for a contending team to trade a lot of picks away to put itself over the top. Vegas, Florida, and Tampa have all done it recently and it worked for them. Edmonton and Toronto did it – and it didn't work. Pittsburgh and San Jose wasted all kinds of assets trying to stay in contention after their windows had closed, and it was sad to see.
Treliving's big fault was trading picks away too soon, to try to make his team a contender. It worked, sort of, but then he didn't have enough assets left to go the rest of the distance. (Blowing a stack of picks on Hamonic didn't help either.)
The winner of the Golden Raspberry for premature buying has to go to Jarmo Kekalainen for the '18-19 Blue Jackets. In the course of that season (starting with the '18 draft) he traded away two 2nds, two 5ths, a 4th, a 7th, two conditional 1sts, and a conditional 6th. The only picks he got back were a 6th, a 7th, and a conditional 7th.
For this haul (plus players and prospects), he got Matt Duchene, Ryan Dzingel, and Adam McQuaid, all of whom walked at the end of the season, plus spare parts. And his team won a grand total of
one playoff round.