Just like he tried really hard for Stone eh
I seem to recall that there was a report that Maloney was pretty confident that the Flames had fielded the best offer for Stone the day before and was expecting the Flames' offer to be accepted. VGK had previously been interested but that interest had seemingly waned. However, at the literal 11th hour, VGK changed their minds and put Brannstrom on the table to secure Stone.
From what I recall, the speculation was that we fielded an offer similar VGK (who asked about the price, but wasn't really kicking tires at all IIRC vs Flames who showed interest from the get go), but with Kylington or Andersson as the dman (at the time, I think value wise it was something like Valimaki>>Kylington>=Andersson). Ottawa wanted the dman upgraded to Valimaki and Treliving said no because he felt like he had a pretty good chance of consummating the trade without changing his offer and wanted to keep Valimaki.
We had the second best offer for Stone. But the second best offer is being an also ran, which is worthless in a trade situation. The same apparently happened with New Jersey and Taylor Hall. Second best offer and NJD really thought long and hard about it, but they went with the Yotes trade package. This trade was rumored to be around Hanifin as the main piece.
Treliving succeeded in trading Brodie for Kadri, but couldn't succeed against Kadri's NTC.
He supposedly succeeded in trading Frolik + 1st (Pelletier) for Zucker, but something internal in the Flames org caused the deal to fall through much to Treliving's chagrin.
The dude works pretty damn hard, but sometimes, he's too aggressive on price vs offering a minor and slight sweetener to lock in the trade making him just miss a great deal by pennies.
First of all are we still doing phrasing?
Secondly not that hard if he wouldn't move Tkachuk as was rumoured.
Things go completely wrong if they include Tkachuk in a Dubois deal.
They would miss out on a Wood - Chuck pun.
Honestly speaking, Treliving to me seems very loyal to his guys. I wonder if it's shades of Dean Lombardi and will basically mirror the reasons for his eventual downfall.
Lombardi won cups tho.