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Originally Posted by Caged Great
for all his faults towards the end, Treliving was the Calgary Flames 2nd best general manager behind only Fletcher.
He did mismanage contract situations towards the end, but he did manage to make the Flames an elite team for a while, which is something nobody since Fletcher had done. They couldn't get it done and two important free agents wanted to be in the states after Covid. He was short sighted at times to try and build the team to be as good as possible right away, but the Flames did get there a couple times.
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No no no. Treliving was not 2nd. Sutter was better by every metric except drafting, which he improved into the system Feaster and Tre inherited. Treliving lost our only two superstars for very little. Sutter traded a top young D for almost nothing. Sutter took the team from 7 straight seasons of no playoffs to 8 consecutive playoff appearances. There is no way Brad is number 2 other than by being poo. Thx.