Quoting: Pensman69
Hmmmm well let’s see? Fumbling Adam Fox, signing James Neal long-term, not signing Tkachuk long term in 2019 which he ate that one up, that lucrative Markstrom contract that benefited them for a year and now they are seeing it blow up in their face, literally watching Johnny Hockey walk in free agency and sign for less then what they offered, disastrous Huby trade despite Weegar coming around, signing Kadri to that fat contract when everyone and their mom knew he had a career year and those stats wouldn’t likely be replicated again….
Oh and then the coaching changes…. Letting go of Hartley 1 year after he had just won Jack Adams and led the team in the right direction… and replaces him with Gulutzan who led them nowhere but to being gone. And then god awful Geoff Ward, brought back Sutter who had 1 good year off a locker room boost and then now has players rumored to not want to come back if he’s coaching…
Besides the draft table this guy is wildly inconsistent and can’t get players to stick around because of the environment he has built around them…
Fumbling Adam fox? He literally refused to sign with anyone but the Rangers. He flipped that problem into a 1st line center and a 1st pair defensemen.
Neal deal was obvious bad, no arguments there. Though he was just coming off a very successful finals run in Vegas at the time.
Calgary did not have the cap space to sign Tkachuk to a long term deal in 2019, especially after the Rantanen and Marner deals came out to set the market. Him eventually asking for a trade last year is completely unrelated.
Markstrom contract is perfectly fine. Only an idiot would think he is a bad goalie with no chance at bouncing back. 6M for a top goalie on the market is very standard, stop trying to compare it to something like the Bobrovsky blunder.
Johnny was extremely close to signing an extension and there was no way they were selling from 1st in the division that year. His wife made the call to go to Columbus, not him.
Huberdeau is overpaid but he is not a 60 point player either. He will undoubtedly be a ppg player again
Weegar contract is excellent, people were certain he was getting 9M.
Kadri contract was definitely suspect, I personally was and am still of the opinion that keeping Monahan was the better choice. If/when Monahan got injured they could have gone after Bo Horvat. On the other hand though I completely understand the reasoning for wanting to add a player like Kadri and I don't think the signing is nearly as bad as you are making it out to be.
Hartley was brutal in that 2nd year. 77 points would be barely ahead of Philly this year.
Gluten was not a good coach but he was also not there long accordingly. Notice how neither of those coaches are in the NHL anymore.
They hired a really good coach after that in Bill Peters (funny how you just forgot about that). However they had to let him go to the Akim Aliu incident which has nothing to do with his ability to coach. Thats when Ward was brought in as the intern head coach.
The Ward extension was ownerships decision, not Treliving's. Ownership is cheap and Ward was both cheap and got them to the playoffs.
Sutter is a good coach in the same sense that guys like Quenneville, Cassidy, Tortorella, and Bowness are good coaches. They run their teams similar to how Gordon Ramsay runs his kitchens. If things are working everyone is on board but if things dont go as planned the constant pressure he puts on the team can be very frustrating and demoralizing. Again it was ownerships decision to extend Sutter here not Treliving.
Overall i think you are only thinking with hindsight here and not considering circumstances at all. I also think you are drastically undervaluing the effects ownership had in Calgary. I wpuld say your opinion here is quite poor and you should be hoping that your Penguins higher Treliving