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Originally Posted by Vulcan
A good talker such as Weisbrod could fake him out and he wouldn't even know it. He'd have him saying what he thought were cool sayings such as post-apex and thinking we were buying it.
Who was the scout who sold him on Cervenka and told him he was a centre? If he had some hockey knowledge he should have known what he was getting, another of his 17 small, don't touch me LWrs.
It isn't just drafting either, it's examples such as his Regehr trade that show his incompetence at judging players.
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Every single successful person has made a mistake. And I'd much rather go with a GM willing to take the occasional risk than one that always goes with the safe bet. It is very easy to point and laugh at the Cervenka signing now, but at the time it was a very interesting grab with potential to be quite a steal... and it cost us nothing. We had 2 Czech born players on the team to help him acclimate, and we were even talking about bringing Jagr in to play with him. There was skepticism, absolutely, but there was also excitement in 'what IF this guy works out?'. It was a good signing, and I really wouldn't hold it against him that Cervenka didn't work out. The dude had a blood clot and missed training camp. Pretty tough to learn a new league and teammates you can't talk to when you miss all of training camp.
I'm confused, are you arguing that the drafting was poor under Feaster? Personally, I'm very happy with his draft results and am expressing that I'm impressed he had the self awareness to let people he trusted advise him on who to draft... which worked out very well. And last I checked, Feaster didn't draft Regehr...