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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
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To be fair he's got a bunch of later picks that have played more then a hundred games, which isn't bad. Paul Ranger was an NHLer and a very good one before he took a few years off. He's got some picks that look as if they could still be decent (Alex Killorn).
But his picks in the first 3 rounds. Wow. Tyrell and Smaby are the best of the bunch and they're spare parts. Killorn could still develop, and I guess Helenius could too, but wow.
It's hard to judge him on his trades, especially this year, because the market appears to be so over the place. The returns for Iginla and Bouwmeester look okay when compared to some deals and awful when compared to others.
They've all been discussed ad nauseum and I doubt the ones who think Feaster won won't sway the ones who say he lost and vice versa. No one know really knows what phone conversations there were but the bottom line for me is that this is the second year in a row they've held up from doing what they said they wanted to do.
Last year he gave the infamous fooled me speech and did nothing. This year, AFTER the big trades iirc, they said they were sellers. With so little sellers out there, how do you only end up with a 5th?
The Flames fanbase is no different then any other in that everything is looked at with homer glasses, which is why guys like Hanowski and Agostino and Cundari who would have been scoffed at two weeks ago - or if involved in trades with another team - are suddenly hyped up. That's natural for any fans and not unique so not worth criticizing I think. And the rationalization that its okay to accept "lesser" deals because it starts the organization moving on past Iginla/Bouwmeester is slightly ridiculous to me; criticism of the trade on its own merits as a hockey deal is still valid I think.
Bottom line for me is whether he's lost any deals is that he hasn't won any either imo. And you need to. Add in the rest of the issues (ROR, etc) and its hard to muster any confidence.