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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
He made a few really good trades with middle round assets, but as Burke said in the presser, Feaster was fired because he terrible at getting full value for our best assets.
To show for our core of Iginla+Bouw+Regehr+2nd, the best asset we got were two late 1st round picks, Hantowski, Agostini, Berra, Cundari, Butler and Byron. That is downright embarrassing. IMO in a few years, Feaster will go down as one of the worst GMs in the NHL of the past decade when it came to trades.
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You can blame Jarome Iginla, and the man-crush Murray Edwards and Ken King had on him, for getting a poor return for Iginla. What's Feaster supposed to do when Iginla balks at going to Boston? Cancel the rebuild and re-sign him?
There may have been a better deal for Bouwmeester out there. But as for getting higher first-round picks, the only teams trading them last year were teams high in the standings.
And what's full value for assets? You need two parties to make a deal. You can set a value for a player, but if nobody will meet it, you have no deal. I think fans have a funny idea about how pro sports trades work, like it's some kind of wheeling and dealing dramatic art where you cunningly trick other teams into giving you more than they want. Teams have a value for their own players. They have a value for other players in the league. When there's opportunity, and both values match, there's a deal.