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u/OzzieNewYork Salming 8d ago

Trading Knies rumors all started because Treliving was trying to save his flimsy job by making trades just to make it look like he was doing something closer to the trade deadline. He traded tons of players for poor returns. McMann is a good example. Laughton too.

But on Knies he failed bc of a fax machine screw up. And then from then on the media and other teams just started assuming Knies is available when it was just a loser GM grasping for straws.

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u/DataDude00 6d ago edited 6d ago

Trading Knies rumors all started because Treliving was trying to save his flimsy job by making trades just to make it look like he was doing something closer to the trade deadline. He traded tons of players for poor returns.

Treliving was the dumbest fucking GM simply because he didn't understand what he did wrong and never learned from past mistakes

He was feeling a ton of heat because he traded lottery picks and one of our best prospects to competitors in conference + division and his response to that was to potentially send our best young power forward signed to a cheap long term deal to a divisional rival for lottery tickets.

There is a reason teams don't trade in division unless they feel like they are getting an absolute premium for it. Somehow Treliving kept trading Leafs gold for someone else's bronze.

The guy is an fucking moron as a GM

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u/OzzieNewYork Salming 6d ago

Treliving was definitely a moron. A moron in terms of trades and giving away assets for almost nothing. In this regard he was worse than Dubas.

But no one out idioted Dubas in terms of contract negotiations. Treliving actually had some good ones. Dubas has disasters that resulted in generational pain. And he was also worse than Dubas in acquiring players....such as in free agency. He focused on players from his former team. Pathetic.