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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Yeah, I don't know if CFF is a new Flames fan or what.... the year before? Max Reinhart, Ramage, Bill Arnold.
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Not that I feel the need to validate myself, but I've been a Flames fan since I was a small boy in 1985 and have watched them closely through the cup era, the Young Gunz (blech), The Sutter resurrection, the Feaster teardown etc.
Just because I haven't posted on this
particular forum doesn't mean I haven't been long discussing the Flames and their trends, transactions, management, players, prospects et al on other websites. Also, just because I now live in Florida does not mean that I'm completely out to lunch on the hockey world.
I am aware he came right after the "best draft evah!!!" (BTW, none of those players have made it as a regular NHLer yet), but that doesn't mean he didn't have an important role with the team and valuable input. Sufficed to say that we don't know how much was him and how much was Feaster, but I think because he was tied to Feaster he gets a lot of negative bias from some people.
Even so, if you look at the 2012 draft and 2013 draft overall, there are some very key pieces to this team moving forward that are undeniable, and some very good later round picks that could have an NHL career. Clearly he wasn't so bad as he was snapped up by Vancouver to build their team. I feel like this is a good hire for Vancouver and a not so good situation for the Flames to have him on a rival team.
I think it's very telling that Feaster is working with an NHL club in a NON-personnel capacity and Weisbrod is an AGM again in the same role he was with Calgary.