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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
It wasn't Conroy.
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Of course it wasn't. My fingers typed what my brain wasn't thinking. It's been a long time since I had to type ‘Treliving’ regularly.
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My point is that you can't argue Montreal had Treliving over a barrel when Kadri was still unsigned. So saying it wasn't an option is just wrong, it was 100% a choice that the Flames made.
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What wasn't an option for the Flames was to play Montreal's role and sell cap space for high picks, because the Flames didn't have cap space to sell. I apologize if I was unclear. I wouldn't have been buying cap space at that price myself. Buying in a seller's market is a chump's game in general.
Treliving isn't nearly as bad a GM as a lot of posters want him to be in retrospect, but he has two big weaknesses: He's bad at hiring coaches, and he tends to get tunnel vision and want particular players at almost any price. He paid too much for Hamonic, and he paid too much to get the cap space to sign Kadri. He did much better in trades when he shopped around for offers and didn't get hung up on specific assets.