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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
This is the thing I don't understand in defence of Treliving - the "how could he ever know?" argument.
He hires the professional scouts to advise him. He had access to metrics and an analytics department that we don't. He has experienced AGMs to bounce ideas off. He has access to players personality and references that we obviously don't. He has years of experience that we don't.
I, for one, agreed with a lot of Treliving's moves, and I disagreed with some of them. It doesn't matter at all. Treliving is the one making decisions, and he should be making better decisions than I could have. I don't have the decades of experience and the team behind me to make those decisions effectively. He also had almost a decade to put everything into place as well, so it isn't like Burke or Maloney who were just keeping things running for the next guy.
Calling Treliving an idiot is wrong. However, giving him passes on things that went wrong doesn't make sense to me either. It is his literally his job to make these calls correctly. This was not a good call, even if dummies like me thought it was an amazing move.
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Pro scouting was a weakness with the Flames. We saw it with Neal, and a few others. Conroy seems to have a better feel, but of course there will be mistakes made - there always are. Other teams make them as well - PLD keeps getting acquired, so does Evander Kane, Vancouver has rbought in some guys who never panned out.