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Originally Posted by Ned Braden
Here's the thing: you complain about the trade because the low 1st rounder isn't good enough. But you can't do that and have been arguing that Feaster needed to blow things up and get what he could get for Iginlia. You're not getting a top 10 pick for Iginla, because what non-playoff team is trading for Iginla's expiring contract?
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Supposedly Feaster's demands were a top prospect, a decent prospect, and a 1st.
I think the top prospect was the most important part of the return. I would have rather seen Feaster leave both the 1st and the middling prospect on the table rather than give up on getting a top prospect.
A late 1st rounder is just not that valuable, as no reasonable person should have been saying "It doesnt matter who we get back as long as we get a pick where, historically speaking, we'd be lucky to get a serviceable NHLer". The calibre of the best prospect coming back was going to determine the success or failure of this deal. And by that scale, this was a terrible deal.
Honest to god, I would rather have had Kaspars Daugavins and Jussi Jokinen off of waivers, over the return that they actually got.