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Originally Posted by saillias
I agree... How did Feaster get let off the hook by Flames fans again? We were all ready to fire him after the O'Reilly incident but as soon as he cried "rebuild" we sorta forgot about his body of work. This team, he built this. These are his guys. Call it a rebuild, I see suck.
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Rebuilding teams suck. They just do. Because the guiding principle of a rebuild is that the future matters more than the present. The Flames are 20 games into the rebuild. If fans are freaking out now, I can't imagine what they'll be doing 200 games in.
You can't wave a wand and add talent to an NHL franchise. Ultimately, you have to draft it. Feaster inherited a team with maybe the worst collection of under-27 talent in the league. It was clear to some of years ago that it would take many years of strong drafting to ice a Flames team with elite talent.
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Originally Posted by saillias
Refer to my post after that... Feaster did not start in Calgary and rebuild right off the bat. He tried to stay competitive, made the team soft and small through trades and signings, and then we bottomed out, and THEN he rebuilt.
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As long as Iginla was on the team, there could be no true rebuild. If you think the decision to trade Iginla and initiate a rebuild was in Feaster's hands.... Well, I don't know what to say.