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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
One of the reasons that I am glad that Conroy was selected to become the GM was that he was here watching Gaudreau and Tkachuk leave.
Treliving was a wizard at those RFA deals, but he took off his wizard hat and sat on it while negotiating UFA deals at times. How many RFA deals were too rich? Bouma?
I believe he will have the mentality of trying to pay players for what he thinks they will accomplish in Calgary, rather than what that player has accomplished in the past.
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I am not a Treliving fan but he was very good at RFA contracts but his UFA contracts prevented him from doing it with some RFAs. Bridge contract on Mangiapane led to an overpay once he popped. He had to do the bridge contract because he had spent a good sum on UFAs. He had to bridge Tkachuk because he signed Neal and had Lucic as a result. I hope Conroy goes all in on RFAs and leaves the UFAs to being an after thought.