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Originally Posted by RedHawk12
I think it's easy to dump on Tre given how things ended here, but his approach when he first took over was not significantly different than Conroy's.
As traptir said, Hamilton and Hamonic were definitely acquired as "long-term" pieces that could have been cornerstone guys for 7+ seasons, similar to Frost. So were Lindholm and Hanifin.
The thinking was, if we bottom out, we can draft a Tkachuk or whatever, but we'll damn do everything we can to build a winner as soon as possible, top-3 picks be damned.
The short term Brouwer/Neal signings came after, as Mony and Johnny etc. were into their primes. It remains to be seen what Conroy will do as Wolf, Zary, Coronato etc. begin to enter their primes.
So yeah, I'd be careful to say that Conroy is doing things drastically different. I think much more of that has to do with the fact that we're still all in the honeymoon phase with Conny as GM. And he was a fan favorite as a player to begin with.
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Somewhere in this thread I have the actual picks and ain’t going to do the work again but it is like Groundhog Day comparing Conroy to Brad. Conroy would have to trade something like three first round picks, 4 second round picks and three 3rd round picks for non-futures to have the same number of picks in the first three rounds in his first 3 years as Brad did. They have totally different approaches.
Brad’s first move as a GM was to trade a 3rd for Brandon Bollig. Conroy’s first move was to trade Toffoli for a younger winger and a 3rd round pick. They have totally different approaches.