[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner

Sorry if this is a re-hash or been said already - I'm 210 replies in after opening this thread at 12:15. First heard about this at 11 AM as I was turning off my phone.

What disheartens me about this move is it continues the carousel of off-ice personnel moves. So now Burke picks his GM - does the GM like the coach we have, or does he predictably hire his own guy? Whe his own guy gets hired, does he like the player mix we have? Or does that cause conflict and help contribute to on-ice player moves? Does the new GM even like the player mix we have, or concentrate on putting his own stamp on the team? And then if executives or owners don't like the direction, how long until they press the reset button on Burke, thereby restarting the carousel once again?

All of this evaluating, assesing, and transforming involves tearing down and rebuilding, but doesn't really get you anywhere. Feaster was the GM for years, but I would argue that he's only had about 18 months to put together the tean he wants, given direction from ownership/executuves and the roster he inherited loaded with NTCs, NMCs, and so on. The new GM will spend time undoing what Feaster has done as he tries to also starts to shape his own vision of the team. How long from now does that take? How long from the date the new GM is hired does that take? Does Burke make moves in the meantime?

It all just seems counter-productive. You can argue that Feaster was the wrong man for the rebuild, and I can understand that. But when a move like this is made, it just setsa back the rebuild a number of months, and possibly seasons, as the new people hit the rest button and start from scratch.

I'm just not convinved this does more than just prolongs what was already shaping up to a be a slow, painful rebuild.

Sorry for the rambling.

The rebuild just began so I don't buy any of this "setting the rebuild back" talk. We are already at the back and there's only one direction from here and that's forward. There isn't yet a young core of players on the big team and there's still a lot of transition to do with this year's team. Sounds like Burke didn't want Feaster handling guys like Cammalleri, Sempniak, Stajan, etc at the deadline based on last years returns. IMO this is all positive.