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Originally Posted by moon
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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Why is the Sutter mess and Ownership mandate BS? Because you said so?Bob Mckenzie has himself said that Calgary owners are the most "hands-on" owners in the league. As for Sutter mess, the draft results speak for themselves where in his last 5 drafts there was only player who had played more than 100 NHL games until he was fired in 2010 and that was Dion Phaneuf who he eventually traded for a garbage return.
So Feaster inherited 2 elite players? You're saying that like those elite players were in the peaks of their career. They were already on a decline, and how do you know that they didn't block trade offers when Feaster took over which weren't made public? Or ownership just didn't want them traded? Just like Kipper didn't want to move this season and how Iginla blocked the Boston trade, maybe they have done that before this season too when there were deals on the table and that just wasn't made public.
Our draft is average now because it was poor when Sutter left. As for Feaster with the Tampa Bay situation, he doesn't have owners fighting against each other here in Calgary where the league has to step in to solve the issue. Way to call him a moron for something like that.