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Originally Posted by ricosuave
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He may have an interesting résumé but his work with the Flames has not shown much. As Feasters "hockey guy", I think it's fair to pin most hockey decisions in him.
I haven't been a fan of the signings at all. Tanguay should not have been re-signed, post apex. Hudler is putting up points on a bad team, but he's very soft and very one dimensional. I know I'm in the minority but I don't think Wideman is all that great. Cervenka is on Weisbrod, Butler is on Weisbrod. Jankowski is on Weisbrod.
The only pattern that I see with Weisbrod's talent evaluation is that he goes for guys who do one thing well but otherwise have major holes in the rest of their game. I dont see a whole lot of two way guys or complete players in their acquisitions. For all the preaching he and Feaster did about hockey sense, with the exception of Hudler, I sure don't see a whole lot.
Oh and the whole building a smurf team was just ridiculous. How often has that worked? If he had a hand in building the Bruins, why did he do the exact opposite of that plan? The team was small and soft enough and all in the same year he re-signs Tanguay, brings in Hudler, trades for Cammalleri, integrates Sven. That's 4 "top 6" guys that can be classified as soft or small or both. Building a small team might have worked in the east, but the Flames are in the west. Why did it take Feaster and Weisbrod the past summer to realize that the team was too small? It should be obvious when you were putting the team together. It just looks like they had no plan and were just throwing a bunch of crap on the wall and seeing what sticked.