The "Sutter Mess" is such a BS excuse. Feaster was left with two elite players and some valuable secondary players that could have easily been moved for a lot of assets to speed up any rebuild, left with a team clearly in need of a rebuild and an easy fall guy in Sutter to blame the losing on and left with a team with a huge fanbase, rich owners and tons of season ticketholders that would make surviving a rebuild easy.
Instead he made awful trades, held on to assets to the point they got us nothing or next to nothing, made bad shortsighted signings, continually missed read the team and tried to sell the team using moronic buzz words and phrases.
The owner mandate/mantra may be the only bigger BS than the Sutter mess as Feaster said he left his other job due to owner meddling so if he lets ownership come again dictate his GM'ing then he is a moron who is an awful GM.
The fact that the only thing people can try and point to as good moves is maybe draft picks which look at best to be average amongst NHL teams over that time points to just how awful a job that Feaster has done.
The fact that people think with an elite Kipper and Iginla and a year removed from the play-offs that this team was close to the joke that it is now is laughable.
Throw in the pathetic job Feaster did in TB and it is mindblowing that anyone can think he should stay on. He is on his second stint of running a team into the ground while making 0 good moves in 2.5 years and yet it is always everyone elses fault but Lowe err I mean Feaster, sorry easy to confuse the two and the sychophants that defend them in each city.
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