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Originally Posted by moon
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.
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Can't disagree with too much in that post, except for the bolded. Feaster and Co. have done a very good job of restocking the cupboards. Darryl left him with scraps and although we don't have any elite/can't-miss talent, we have some fine prospects in the system. I'll hand it to Darryl that Brodie, Backlund, and Phanuef were good picks and the jury is still out on Ramage/Reinhart but Baertschi/Gaudreau/Jankowski/Wotherspoon/Granlund/Gillies/etc. > Pelech/Wahl/Nemisz/Boyd/Howse/Ortio/etc. I'm not sure how much leeway Feaster might have with ownership but I think years from now we'll be able to look back at his drafting and be pretty happy with the restocking he did, especially with what was left behind by his predessor. Whether he's still around in those few years though, remains to be seen.