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Originally Posted by Textcritic
How does the first failure disqualify him from the chance of success in a completely different direction? Again, it is silly to make a rigidly narrow argument for human behaviour and performance from the available information.
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It sounds like you are trying to equate that not being a good engineer =/= being a good doctor. Again this is a flawed argument. Feaster has been an NHL GM for the past couple seasons with the Flames and is still an NHL GM with the Flames. His job duties haven't dramatically changed.
What track record of success in terms of rebuilding does Feaster have? There was a team that had a worse track record of drafting and development than the Flames during the 2002-2008 years and that was the Tampa Bay Lightning. What has Feaster shown you to make you place your faith with him?
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CliffFletcher is absolutely correct about the ambiguity behind what happened in the head offices between 2010–12. This lack of clarity pretty much precludes ones ability to form sound judgments about Feaster's job performance, since there are a handful of interpretations that are also significantly affected by our biases. I can readily admit that my own ambivalence towards Feaster contributes to the positive spin that I apply to his actions. I will venture to argue further that those who are highly critical of Feaster arrive at their conclusions in no small part based on preconceptions and poorly formed opinions from a dearth of actual information.
Because of this absence of clarity, all we can really do is judge Feaster based on his PRESENT performance: That is, from the point when the team clearly changed direction, how effective has he been? There are plenty of sound reasons to answer this question positively.
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You are correct in some ways, but "Just following orders" has been shown to be a poor defense. You also have a GM who proclaimed with enthusiam that he resigned on his own terms from the Lightning, because the ownership group was meddlesome. You would be dead wrong in assuming that Feaster does not share in any lack of accountability for what has transpired here. Whatever you have described Feaster as, I think it comes across fairly clear that he is not a leader and has trouble influencing others to his point of view (if you beleive his view was contradictory to that of the organization).
It doesn't change the fact that Feaster made the moves he made such as trading for poor assets, resigning various "post apex" players, only to have to ship them off for other dead weight.
Feaster may have been given the direction by Management, but one would at least have to beleive that he made those poor decisions or negotiated those contracts himself.
While there have been some better moves as of late, it certainly doesn't scream enthusiam either. If you would like an example of what sort of assets you should be stockpiling for a rebuild, take a look at Buffalo, who has accumulated a large number of very good draft picks in the next few years. Let me know when we start accumulating them.
I've bolded the following point as this is extremely relevent. The "Change in Direction" was pretty clearly decided within about a month's time, as the team went from giving up assets for ROR to rebuild. Given that the organization changed direction in such a short time, what confidence do the most of the same players inspire that they will not change direction at the drop of a hat again? Just one hot streak? Just one trade deadline in 9th place?