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Originally Posted by Bingo
The abuse Treliving takes on this site is off the charts.
Trade didn't work out.
Wish he didn't do it.
But the hockey community had the Flames as a contending team after those moves before puck drop on that season.
Not sure how the goof got all that media from other cities behind him.
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I think it just goes to show how wrong the hockey community can be sometimes.
Losing your two star wingers should have pushed us down a different path.
The Tkachuk trade netted us a solid return but trading him for another star winger who was 4.5 years older was already a step in the wrong direction. Signing Huberdeau to the richest contract in franchise history before ever suiting up was another. Trading a fan favorite along with the better 1st so we could give max term and dollars to a 31 year old was yet another.
Tre utilized his leverage to get better AAV on contracts with guys like Gaudreau and Tkachuk, and then he just opens the coffers for Huberdeau, Weegar and Kadri?
I get that nobody could have predicted the Huberdeau downfall but he made the team significantly older with those moves and removed our cap flexibility that he fought so hard, in dealings with RFA's, to maintain.
Tkachuk wanted to sign longer on his bridge deal but Tre had reservations about moving Frolik, who fizzled out shortly thereafter, to make it work. You should always sign your young studs to as long as you can as early as you can.
I was always a huge supporter of Tre as a manager and as a person. Now all I can say, when looking back on his tenure, is I still support him as being a really good person.
He made too many critical errors at the end.