While, with the benefit of hindsight, it sounds like the Detroit offer was better, you can't judge Feaster without knowing whether the reports were true that Detroit was insisting that we retain salary but the Flames weren't willing to.
Just because Burke says that the Flames' owners have authorized him to retain salary doesn't mean that they'd given Feaster that same green light. Maybe that was one of Burke's conditions for taking the job. Or maybe ownership feels differently now that our payroll is among the lowest in the league. Or maybe Feaster really did have that option available to him. None of us know which of those scenarios is true, so turning this into "evidence" that Feaster sucked is unfair. Though that's never stopped some of you before, so carry on I guess.
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