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Originally Posted by Split98
...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...
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Your confusion is understandable. The argument basically goes like this:
· Feaster doesn't know anything, hence should not receive any credit for any of the players who were drafted under his watch. Furthermore, he should get no credit for overseeing the scouting staff, since he doesn't know anything, and thus is incapable to know whether or not they were competent.
· However, Feaster does bear the responsibility for any controversial picks made on his watch, and for his middling draft record from his time in TB, because he is not a very good GM, and cannot properly assess talent.
· Finally, while Feaster bears responsibility for his draft record in TB, this also precludes his selection of Steve Stamkos, because virtually everyone with the same utter dearth of hockey knowledge that he possesses would also have made that same pick.
In the end, there are a dozen ways to spin Feaster's abilities into a cesspool of incompetence, so long as every scenario is editorialised in such a way that would eliminate the possibility of any potential success by reducing it to a product of unsubstantiated mitigating factors.