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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
The Cervenka signing is barely anything. Haven't the foggiest why anyone makes an issue with that. He was given a high cap hit, which wasn't an issue with our team, only paid a million, and was an experiment for a season. It didn't work out and he left.
You can harp on plenty of things Feaster did, Cervenka barely registers though. I have no problem with a GM trying out an older euro player for a year, it didn't negatively effect the Flames an iota.
If that Wolf fellow from Germany comes over for one season and is a total blunder for Burke, it's really nothing. Don't mind these types of moves. I could understand if we were tight against the cap or needed a contact spot but neither of those situations were in play.
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From a financial standpoint it was a worthwhile gamble. The big issue though is that the Flames had Iginla and Kipper, brought in Wideman, Hudler and were still going "all in" to make the playoffs and Feaster had Cervenka penciled in as a top 6 center and into the season it became apparent that he wasn't an NHL center and there were those lean weeks when Stajan was the only real center on the roster due to injuries and wingers were playing center that really hurt the team as the center position depth was a joke. I have no issues with the money but there wasn't a backup plan at the center position for him not panning out and that hurt the team. Personally while I like Jay Feaster I found that a major miscalculation as well as the ROR debacle that made him look pretty bad that season.