[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by polak

I guarantee the days of taking a chance on a Gaudreau are over. Just look at this draft. Outside of Bennett we picked size over higher ceilings with pretty much every pick.

I wouldn't't say that. Picking Smith was a greater risk than picking Gaudreau. Everyone thinks small players have a bigger bust percentage than larger players. I don't think there is evidence to support that. Small players under 5'8" are a statistical outlier in the draft, just like players above 6'5" are. The smaller players seem to find their way into the league with more consistency than the upper outlier. Smith, with his size, appears to be just as risky a pick as Gaudreau, so the team has assumed just as much risk.

Originally Posted by Da_Chief

Only 1255 days? thats 3.5 years, he better have re-stocked the cupboards seeing how terrible the team was in that span.

Yet the guys who were there before him, in longer terms, did even worse.

Originally Posted by Hackey

You do realize Feaster had higher picks and a surplus of them because of our situation at the time. Apples and oranges. Like it was said before if we would have had a more competent GM during those years we would likely be further ahead in our rebuild.

So give the guy some credit for doing something the other regimes were too stupid or stubborn to do. There were more than enough posters who identified a window to move certain players, long before Feaster took control of the club. But those guys didn't do it and actually dealt away high picks to try and improve a crappy team. Yet Feaster gets lambasted for taking over a horrible organization and rebuilding that depth in three drafts.

Originally Posted by MarkGio

Drafting 1st rounders should be pretty simple (although we've failed at that before), so it would be good to compare Feaster's later round picks with prior GMs.

I hate HF posters. They just don't have anything on the ball. Drafting 1st rounders isn't that easy, otherwise there would never be busts. But that point is irrelevant since on the list presented, a list generated by the posters on this site, the number one prospect was a 4th round selection, the number five prospect is a 2nd round selection, the seven prospect is a 2nd round selection, the number ten prospect is a 3rd round selection, the number twelve prospect is a 2nd round selection, and the number 14 prospect was a FA, drafted in e 5th round, that was traded for and signed. So of the top 15 prospects identified by the posters on is site, Feaster was responsible for the drafting of 10 of them, and of those, 60% came outside the first round. Brutal.