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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Did I say it is impossible?
Ask a GM would they rather inherit a team that had one of the absolute best forwards in the game just entering his prime and a top 10 pick in a deep draft or a GM that has a roster full of 30+ high paid players who have underacheived, a disgruntled prospect that won't sign with the team, and the 13th pick in the draft.
I think most GM's would take the first option
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What Darryl acquired, noting only noticeable assets, in age:
28+ : N/A (maybe Gelinas)
22-28 (prime) : Iginla, Drury, Regehr, Leopold
Young players / prospects : Saprykin, Kobasew, Lombardi
Farm Team: NONE
Team during previous GM regime : 0/3 (0/4 before that)
What Feaster acquired:
28+ : Iginla, Regehr, Kiprusoff, Bouwmeester, Tanguay
22-28 : Gio, Bourque, Glencross
Young players / prospects : Backlund, Brodie, Erixon (top prospect) ...
(no young players or prospects, right?)
Farm Team : Up and operating
Team status during previous GM regime: Playoffs 5/6 previous seasons
I will say that Darryl left a lot of dead anchors behind, and there were 2 main young studs (Iginla, Regehr) but that team Darryl acquired was crap. The most exciting thing leading up to Darryl was the SIN line and Nazarov wearing white skates. Darryl might have left this team anchored in big contracts, and his drafting was below average, but we were one of the biggest jokes in the NHL; every home game, Flames fans littered the ice with trash when we lost. I remember sitting through an aweful 8-1 blowout from the Columbas Blue Jackets (IN THEIR EXPANSION YEAR no less... but I paid $40 for my ticket and I was in high school with only crappy summer jobs as income, I'm sitting through this bullcrap).
All this aside... I think Feaster has done a pretty good job for the most part... I'm just not gonna blindly slag Darryl though.