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Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan
So the general sentiment for Feaster haters is that past attempts to make big bold moves to improv an ailing franchise may possibly have set back said franchise, so until there are enough good moves done by Feaster, these 2 or 3 incidents (out of at least 30 or so) are going to haunt every big day (i.e. draft day, deadline day, UFA day) that he oversees until he's fired?
Can we make an agreement with the Feaster hater crowd? If Feaster does well on UFA day coming up I request the following:
1) We stop talking about the Brad Richards and Ryan O'Reilly situations since they didn't actually end up happening and therefore do NOT affect the franchise.
2) We give Feaster a pat on the back for his recent exceptional work at restocking our prospect cupboards.
3) We give him the benefit of the doubt going forward and stop all these "I'm worried" and "If Feaster does 'X' he needs to be fired immediately" posts.
I for one am fully confident in this group to build a good team. There's been a lot of progress over the past 2 years. It's obviously going to take longer to be a true contender, but I know they will make mostly good moves. Until Feaster starts pulling Al Coates or Doug Risebrough moves, I will defer to his expertise and leave him the hell alone.
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I don't hate Feaster I just think he is a horrible, horrible GM. As a person he seems nice enough and if he had a role outside of hockey ops with the team I would be fine with that.
As to some other points my main issue is not that that attempts at big bold moves may have possibly hurt the franchise it is that his horrible assessment of the team as a contender and not making deals when it was clear they needed to be made severly hurt this franchise.
As well his "big moves" have all been failures, the ROR is not a disaster because of us possibly losing him for nothing it is a disaster because it was a horrible hockey move if we would have got him, the Regehr deal sucked, the UFA signings have sucked, the Iginla/Kipper returns are way less than they should have been if we moved them earlier.
All of his "wins" seem to be either pretty small or unproven. He has not done an exceptional job of rebuilding the prospect cupboard. He may have had some nice drafts but way too early to tell and he will need some big leaps from guys to make it exceptional. The Galiardi move was nice but it gets us a 3rd/4th liner so doesn't come close to his previous misteps. Corban Knight has done 0 at the professional level and looks okay as a possible 3rd/4th liner down the line but again not close to a move that shows he has a clue about judging hockey talent. The Tanguay deal is a lot of meh going out for meh going in.
Much like his time in TB he took a team that had many assets but needed to change direction and ran the team into the ground wasting assets and totally misjudging where the teams were at and what the teams needed to do going forward.
Until Feaster shows that he has any ability to judge talent and make moves that actually help this team improve not sure why he would get any benefit of the doubt when everything he has done as a GM points to him deserving to be fired.