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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Not that I agree, but even if you excuse that deal, how about how he botched the Regehr deal? Or Bouwmeester? Or even Brad Richards for Mike Smith+Jeff Halpern+Jussi Jokinen?
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Considering only a crazy person would trade Smith for Richards straight up at this point, that deal doesn't look so bad.
The Regehr deal sucked (although not as apocalyptic as some seem to make it out to be) but other than that, the Bouwmeester and Iginla deals were pretty decent. I think people that have a negative few of those deals forget a few things: A) Iggy was a rental with a high price tag. No matter who player is, if you can't fit him in your structure you can't trade for him. I'm sure there were many teams that would have liked to look at adding Iggy but couldn't make it work. Boston deal was better than Pitt, but Iggy was given the right to choose, that's not on Feaster. B) Bouwmeester, again with a high price tag, and one that wasn't even gone at the end of the season. Not to mention that the season he was traded was his first actual good season in Calgary, his value was definitely not where it was when he was signed.
I'm not sold on Hanowski and haven't really seen much of Agostino so I can't really comment on him, I think Cundari could be a good tough dman ala Andrew Ference, and Berra has been decent so far in limited time.
If you want to trade stars for futures, you're not going to know the outcome for a least a few years. If you were expecting a hall of fame winger and a top pairing dman to be brought back in those trades your expectations were the problem, not Feaster.