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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think the reason many (including myself0 see the dread hand of King or Murrey (or both as I believe) on the team is because it has been clear for 3 seasons the team is done and needs to be rebuilt, now when Sutter was in charge you could argue he was a stubbern old sod and was riding his team into the sunset come hell or high water, but when Feaster was hired to replace Sutter (with little due process, which in hockey/business terms tends to be the equivalent of fingers in the ears singing 'I can't hear you') and yet he continued to follow the same completely senseless path that Sutter had taken the team it makes no hockey sense what so ever.
So either Feaster is a moron or someone with no hockey smarts what so ever is realy running the show and Feaster is just being a good lawyer and following his clients instructions, them's your choices pick whichever.
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I definitely don't like the way Feaster was hired. I didn't like the hire at all as the AGM. I liked it less after he became the GM, and hated the fact that they didn't interview anyone else.
What I think Feaster sold them on was 'this team is close' - we don't need to rebuild like other teams do, but rather rebuild slowly and get younger slowly = or something like that.
This team has been getting younger, and they have stopped trading picks away for 'win now'. I think this was Feaster's 'plan' to the owners, and this is why they decided to hire him on it.
Question is what will the owners do now that this plan seems to have failed? I still don't see the 'meddling' aspect - I see them as a bunch of owners that want to win, and got suckered by a smooth talking Feaster with a 'plan' that they wanted to believe in.