Had we had competent management and an ownership that weren't acting like fan boys and nincompoops we would have traded Iginla a full two years earlier. Yes yes, it would have been painful, but with a solid communications and marketing effort along with some "intellectual honesty" you could have sold the rebuild then just as they are now.
Instead we not only got nothing for Iginla, we got nothing for a bunch of assets we traded to extend the closing hours on the country club for another couple seasons. We wouldn't have signed Tanguay to a ridiculous contract. We would have jettisoned Jackman at the peak of his value. We would have been patient with Regehr and traded him to a contender with injury issues at the deadline for much higher value.
But Feaster and Management reap what they sow. In desperately trying to get that playoff ticket revenue they actually put us three years further back.
That's my problem, and I don't rest most of that at Feaster's feet.
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