Feaster's body of work as GM is not a good one, but it's hard to judge him as in both Tampa and Calgary he had meddling ownership and other mitigating factors in place.
He seemed to be making more good moves than bad ones towards the end of his tenure in Calgary though. His trading was always suspect but was a huge fan of his drafting.
2011 draft: Baertschi, Granlund, Wotherspoon, Gaudreau, Brossoit
2012 draft: Jankowski, Sieloff, Gillies, Kulak, Culkin, Gordon, DeBlouw
2013 draft: Monahan, Poirier, Klimchuk, Kanzig, Roy, Harrison, Rafikov, Gilmour
That's an embarrassment of riches compared to Sutter's drafts from 2004-2010. And most of those guys haven't even finished developing yet. If a couple later round picks pan out it'll be gravy.
Feaster seemed to let his scouting staff do their thing. Really really hope Burke doesn't change a thing in that regard.
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