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Originally Posted by Split98
http://flamesnation.ca/2013/12/16/a-...nificant-moves
Good read, and something I had to look up as I don't remember Feaster being as toxic a GM as people are making him out to be. His issue was the inability to form a solid plan for a top 5 team. But I would argue that he has accomplished a difficult task of building depth and character. Getting high-skill is difficult, yes. But with a high draft position and cap space (which we have tons of, thanks to Feaster) we have a great base to build on top of.
Glad we've moved on, but I can really hardly look back at the Feaster era as a negative stage of Calgary's rebuild.
EDIT: Didn't consider that refreshing the conversation while I read the above article would be wise...
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Yeah...I also don't get the feaster hate either. He's done a good job of building the cupboards, clearing out cap space, found a couple gems, made a lot of low risk high reward trades, got the team younger, and has changed the identity of the flames to "one of the hardest working teams in the NHL"
When you're worst trades as a gm are picking Jankowski, where we won't know the outcome for 2.5 more seasons, and trading iggy and jaybo for 2 firat round picks in the best draft in a decade I think he did just fine.
Porier and Monahan both look like they could turn into franchise players. Agostino and Hanowski both look like they'll be NHL players. Agostino is suppose to be the better of the two. Berra already is in the NHL.
I don't know what people wanted for Iggy and Jaybo. It was a strong draft. The first round picks was worth more than previous years. Iggy didn't even re-sign in Pittsburgh, and we got 2 solid prospects in addition to the first. And out of the JayBo trade we got the steal of the draft in Porier.