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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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I am fairly happy with his drafting (I don't mind the Jankowski pick either), but like you pointed it out, there were just too many attention grabbing debacles. It seemed like the day-to-day management was fine, but when something would go wrong, it would be bad.
The ROR situation and the miss queue with Boston/Iginla, were 2 instances that brought some unwanted attention to this team and made us look really disorganized. Feaster may not have been 100% to blame, but they sure exposed his lack of savvy and made the franchise look silly. I think Feaster lost too much rapport with his colleagues and would likely have trouble wheeling and dealing in the future (hard to get a fair shake when every other GM is trying to pull one over on you).