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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
he was pretty bad.
when you look at the moves of trying to sign Richards and ROR, the returns on JayBo and Iggy...the failure to see that the Flames should have been starting the rebuild 2 years earlier, when there were plenty of people saying that?
People can say that "management tied his hands", but guess what? That's why he was a bad GM...you think the owners would not have listened to a Ken Holland or a lou lamoriello or any number of respected GMs if they told them the ship was listing?
Good GMs have ownership on their side because of their track records, because they make the right decisions and they get people to support those decisions.
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No matter what we know or don't know as fact, you can unequivocally say one thing about Feaster, you can see it in his eyes, he is a "Yes" man.
He was brought into the Flames organization to be an Asst. Gm, which many knew at the time was the role of GM in waiting. There were likely hundreds of backroom chats of how when he became GM, how things would proceed - a puppet.
The RoR fiasco opened ownership's eyes to the fact that a Newspaper publisher has no clue about how to draft, trade, run a hockey franchise (personnel wise) and it's likely not best practice to have a yes man underling as GM.
Daryl winning a cup nearly instantly after being re-employed, likely woke up some people.