A few years ago, shortly after he was hired by the Calgary Flames, Brad Treliving saw what everyone had been talking about.
Emile Poirier, a promising prospect who was picked by former general manager Jay Feaster, had the wheels and was billed as a scoring winger out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Gatineau Olympiques.
"Abbotsford (the Flames' former American Hockey League affiliate) was playing Grand Rapids the day after I got hired, and he had just come from Gatineau," Treliving recalled, referring to Poirier's professional debut in the spring of 2014. "This guy was the best player on the ice.