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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I gotta laugh at folks who think the timing of the rebuild and the decision to trade Iginla were in Feaster's hands. King and Edwards weren't ready to pull the plug on the Iginla era until halfway through last season. They weren't about to employ a GM who told them what they didn't want to hear.
That's the reason a new layer was added to the Flames management structure - to keep the guy in King's role from meddling in hockey operations anymore.
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Ignoring the 'I gotta laugh' comment and all that it oozes...
What makes you think you are right? What evidence do you have that King and Edwards were the ones refusing this? What makes you think that once they decided to let Sutter go, that they really weren't sure about what direction they wanted to go in, but Feaster sweet-talked them back into trying to remain competitive?
This is the story you have built to rationalize what went on. It doesn't mean it is the only story or the correct one. Nobody outside a certain level in the organization will know for sure what really went on with regards to the decision making.
All we know is that Feaster was the GM. We know that Feaster left Tampa due to meddling issues with the new owners there. You can say he was just following orders here after finally getting another shot as a GM and was willing to take orders, or you can think he was indeed acting on his own and doing what he thought best.
Until there is some factual concrete evidence, nobody is really 'right' or 'wrong'. I was merely commenting on the fact that for those 2 years, this organization tried to do both, until it finally fell apart.