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Originally Posted by Macho0978
I agree. People criticize Treliving for the summer of 2015 but what did he do? He traded for a 22-year-old dman who was coming off a 40-point season and is 6 foot 6 230lbs and a good skating offensive dman with lots of skill. Sure, it didn't work out but there was reason to believe Dougie would be a franchise dman similar to Hedman. His game never progressed on the defensive end, but with that size and skating at that age most GMs would have projected him to be that kind of dman.
Brodie and Gio were 25 and 30
Gaudreau and Monahan were 21 and 19
Sven looked to be a star in the making
We had 18-year-old Sam Bennett who was being projected as a franchise center.
If you are building a franchise and you have 2 top 6 centers with 1 being projected to be franchise calibre and young franchise dman to go with an already top pairing like Gio and Brodie looked to be. I would say 2015 is further along than now. This team now has more depth a prospect but missing these key prospects at center
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I don't think many complained about the Hamilton trade, it was the Hamonic trade which was the big mistake.