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Originally Posted by indes
Treliving lost me at the Huberdeau + Weegar extensions. Losing Gaudreau + Tkachuk put the writing on the wall, we weren't good enough with them - we sure as hell weren't going to be good enough without them.
We should have flipped Huberdeau & Weegar for more assets and started the rebuild that summer. I'm a huge Weegar fan but at the time it didn't make sense to try and run it back without 2/3 of our top line. We could have loaded up on capital that summer and probably ended up with the equivalent of 4 firsts for Tkachuk. Keeping the 1st from the Monahan trade and we end up with 5 firsts in the next 2 years and still have a ton of assets to trade off.
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That wasn’t Treliving’s call alone. The whole franchise - especially ownership - were desperate to turn around the narrative that no stars wanted to play in Calgary. Conroy and others have talked about the collective decision by the Flames braintrust not to go the rebuild route. Their hand was forced a year later, but at the time there was no appetite for it from Edwards down.
I think people put way too much emphasis on individual GMs. These days in the NHL all major decisions have a half-dozen experts weighing in. And ownership has the final call on strategic direction.
This Flames management group is much the same as the one during Treliving’s tenure. Edwards, Maloney, Treliving, Conroy, Pascall >>> Edwards, Maloney, Conroy, Nonis, Pascall isn’t the clean break people have made it out to be.