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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Deliberately obtuse, but I offer no apology. It's what you get in response for unnecessarily piling on. We get it, and the point does not need to be belaboured. Feaster was far from a great GM. However, chastising teams for players that they DIDN'T draft is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Show me one team or one GM that has never missed.
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I actually don't think Feaster was that bad. I certainly think Sutter was worse over the body of work. And most of my vitriol is saved for who I think was really pulling the strings during the Feaster tenure which are those higher up. But still, the Jankowski thing is looking bad. Very bad. And it's mostly the result of hubris, the feeling that we're smarter than everyone. And that pick should be held to account. We were a bad team with little in the way of prospects by that time trading down to then pick a longshot when there were nice prospects out there, like Girgensons who I had hoped we picked at 14 was... well... it was a bad decision. Same as not having a 2nd rounder for that draft to nab the "best goalie outside of the NHL." We should have had multiple seconds that draft not be forced to trade down to get one.