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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It's fine to say "I was wrong". And no, I don't expect them to defend that position. I do think it's hypocritical for those people to say the contract was an obvious mistake at the time. Treliving had two stars leaving. He replaced Gaudreau with someone of a similar age who he figured could do the same job based on stats, and paid that guy the contract being offered to Gaudreau. He replaced the other with the rest of the return - a first round pick, a star defenceman and a middling prospect. Then he tried to fill in the loss of Tkachuk up front by making the moves to get Kadri.
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The large majority of posters thought Treliving had done a spectacular job at the time, and many of those same posters are ready to hang him for such a terrible job he did.
Now, the only justification would be that "Treliving should know better, that's his job". There is some truth to that.
But those same posters in he future, when voicing a hockey opinion about moves the GM is doing they don't agree with, should qualify their post my saying "Warning, I may not know what I'm talking about, because its not my job".
I thought Treliving had done a great job with the hand he was dealt, although I didn't like that he didn't sign Tkachuk long term when he had the chance years ago. So, I would have difficulty criticizing him now.