In the end despite his frequent use of the phrase, Feaster was not anywhere near intellectually honest enough. The one season he threatened change when we were sucking and then did not follow through either showed ownership meddling (which they've denied) or a complete lack of intellectual honesty.
Feaster had many solid smaller deals. Erixon, Russell, etc. But many of his larger moves were accompanied by some sort of fiasco (O'Reilly, Iginla to Boston) or he just didn't get good enough value (Regehr, arguably Iginla and maybe Bouwmeester deals.) Feaster did manage to get us out of many of our terrible contracts but he was also the cause of a few of them (Babchuk, Sarich, Tanguay.) Overall I'd say he didn't make many catastrophic mistakes but he also didn't advance the rebuild as quickly as we could have.
As for Burke I've always liked him. I like his assessment that we lack size, strength and physicality is a true assessment. I think his blueprint does work and that the successful teams do have the size we lack. So I am optimistic that we'll be moving towards getting some powerforwards and some physical defensive defensemen. And at this point that are some of the last few key pieces we need IMO. If we can get a 1st line powerforward or a big top 2 defenseman we are looking good. Even if we have to settle for a top two line centre I think we're looking good as long as Burke is emphasizing finding powerforwards and d-men with size (not ignoring skill/skating.)
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