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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Jeez, it's like you guys have never had a boss before.
I believe when Nieuwendyk started in Dallas they had a spendy spendy pants owner, who then became insolvent, who then sold the team.
Those are tough conditions to run a hockey club. At one point Dallas had to sign Pardy to his crazy deal in order to clear the cap floor. Other notable moves during that time are trading for Eric Nystrom instead of claiming him for free, simply to take on the full value of his cap hit to keep the team above the cap floor.
It's not like the guy was given a free hand to build a winner from the ground up and squandered it all.
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Tough conditions don't force a GM to replace a good coach with a terrible coach, to trade two good players for one mediocre player. It doesn't force you to sign Adam Pardy to a $4M contract.
There are so many options open to managers that there can be no excuse here. We liked to make excuses for Feaster given his moves in Tampa, but the fact is bad managers make bad moves.
He's proven to be a poor evaluator of talent and I don't want him responsible for the draft.