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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
In the state Sutter left the franchise, it was going to take years to clean up the mess. Feaster 'stopped the bleeding' (his words). He stopped trading away picks for older assets. He chiseled away at the bad contracts, aging roster, and no trade clauses. Could he have done more sooner? Probably. But as I said, I believe the overriding goal of the Flames franchise in those years was a desire by King and Murray to keep Iginla happy and try to get in the playoffs with him. But the roster Feaster inherited wasn't much to work with. It was already a non-playoff team, and had pretty much no impact players in the 20-26 year age range. The only way to stem that decline in the short-term was to trade again yet more youth and picks for veterans.
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Except he didn't really do that. He helped create the mess. I'm not saying he was given the greatest starting position, but he clearly sewed some bad seeds himself.
He screwed up the Regehr trade. Which he used to sew up his next poor move, which was to:
He resigned Tanguay for 5 years (and gave him an NTC!), whom he had to dump for more poor contracts in David Jones and O'Brien.
He resigned guys like Sarich (NTC!), Babchuk (NTC!) to poor contracts.
He traded away lower round picks for junk like Modin and PL3.