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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
No they likely needed a job for a high profile former bruin, or they wanted a tandum approach to help our Chiarelli, which is fine. But the Flames already have Feaster, Conroy and Wisebroad driving the ship that is "hockey operations" for the Flames. If we need to add another cook to the kitchen, regardless of title, then we clearly don't feel we have the right folks driving the hockey side of our business, and that means Feaster, Wisebrod and Conroy aren't getting it done in the eyes of ownership.
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Don't disagree. If the Flames were happy with Feaster he likely just moves up into the VP of hockey operations role and Weisbrod becomes the GM. That was likely the original plan but I think some of the perceived failures (O'Reilly, Iginla), deserved or not, have led to that not being feasible.
You just can't give Feaster a promotion after the optics of the last season.
One way or another though they would have been adding a new VP of hockey operations this offseason. Even if it was Feaster then Weisbrod likely moves up to GM, and they hire a new AGM and we still have the same amount of hockey people in the organization.