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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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Originally Posted by calgARI
Absolutely. I'm pretty sure Burke would have gotten Iginla to agree in advance to a list of teams so he could get some bargaining leverage. Extremely amateur move that he negotiated a deal with Boston before getting Iginla to fully agree to a trade there. Then he went on to publicly acknowledge his idiocy almost blaming the player. I guess it's just "academic" but Feaster proved himself totally incapable on multiple occasions. Should have been fired immediately after O'Reilly incident. No GM would have made some of the oversights he made.
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Besides what ARI said, you can blame everyone but Feaster but at the end of the day, owners (Murray Edwards) realized that management needed a critical overview, and Brian Burke - through speaking with various people in the NHL - came to the conclusion that Feaster (a) did not get full value for his trades, and (b) drafting was not acceptable, that both Murray Edwards and Brian Burke came to the conclusion that Feaster was a bad enough GM that they needed to fire him. Directly from the horses mouth.
What is my opinion, is that after Kevin Lowe and Mike Milbury, Feaster will go down as the worst GM in the NHL in the past decade. 3 core players and a 2nd round pick..... waht will it net? Will any of them even become anything more then waiver wire material?
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Originally Posted by DionTheDman
My understanding was that Iggy's "list" included Boston initially, and so Feaster was working on trades with those teams. However, when it came down to it, Iggy basically threw the list out and would only accept a trade to Pittsburgh. I thought that was the generally-accepted version of what happened? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Not really. From Iginla/Feaster's own mouth, Feaster said he had 2 options (Boston and Pittsburg) and Iginla said if he (Feaster) though both were good value, he would perfer Boston.
Saying that, Iginla cannot simply "(throw) out a list" if its a signed contract to waive a NMC. Its a legal document, which was the 2nd legal oversight by Feaster within a few weeks which is a very ironic mistake for a lawyer.