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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
BUT...and this is a massive but...this still doesn't address the goaltending issues. All that talent and mediocre to terrible goalies behind them every step of the way. Treliving was a terrible evaluator of goaltending talent, and had no real plan to develop one of his own.
He's still kinda doing it in Toronto, relying on rebound performances or journeymen like Samsonov, Martin Jones, and now Stolarz to do the job. Mind you, Stolarz has been really good this year just like he was last year in Florida, so maybe he got lucky this time.
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Their one opportunity to draft a good goalie under Treliving was 2014 when they took Macdonald ahead of Demko (though IIRC that Treliving may have actually sat the draft out because he'd just been hired away from AZ). I supposed they missed on Oettinger but he was picked 10 after Valimaki.
The biggest miss was Jankowski instead of Vasilevsky but that's not on Treliving of course.