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Originally Posted by macrov
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.
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Coming from a Feaster supporter I have to disagree.
Trading a Franchise player, even if he is 35 and a UFA, for at least a first rounder is a given. Same goes for when you are trading a top pairing defenceman.
The extras in the deals should have been better, particularly the JBow one.
First rounders notwithstanding we got Berra, Cundari, Hanowski and Agostino.
Berra might become more but as of now he is a backup. Cundari is looking less and less likely to make an NHL impact for the Flames. Not enough for a top pairing dman signed to a contract the following season.
In the Iggy trade we got Hanowski, who i worry won't ever get up to NHL speed, and Agostino who is a wlidcard he has some tools but we have no idea what to expect. I'm not sure this deal was enough either but I can forgive it more so than the JBow trade.