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Originally Posted by New Era
Iginla should have been traded a couple years earlier, when it was obvious the team was going no where fast. That wasn't Feaster fault. Iginla's no-trade also handcuffed the organization. Again, Feaster did pretty well given the circumstances and what he was left to work with. He was far from great, but he was also far from horrible. He was given a team in full decline, with nothing in the minors, and managed to turn it around to where we have a future to speak of. We did not have that when Sutter left.
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Nice try putting lipstick on a pig there. Feaster got owned in every major trade except Bourque-Cammy where he came out slightly on top (giving away the 36th pick in 2013 draft hurt but Ramo/Cammy was a nice return for a cap dump) he got destroyed on the Regehr and Bouwmeester trade. The Tanguay trade was awful as well.
Feaster may have taken the job with no choice but to push for the playoffs but did a bad job building. Yes we have some nice prospects but 3 drafts have produced 1 regular NHLer who was taken 6th overall. Again a monkey could have made that pick.
Iggy did have a no trade so it was hard to move him I agree. Just like the RoR offer sheet Feaster did not do all his homework and assumed since he was allowed to negotiate a trade with Boston Iggy was going to waive his NMC. Instead he goes ahead tells Boston the deal is done and Iggy blocked it. Ken Ling even admitted on prime time sports they made a mistake in how it was handled. Feaster also signed Wideman to that terrible 5 year deal with a full NMC. He is our 4/5 Dman and is the highest paid guy on the back end.
The flames missed the playoffs 2 years when Sutter was GM picking 9th and not had traded away 13th in 2010. Feaster was around for 3 drafts and held picks in the top 15 ever year. He trades away the 2012/13 2nds in cap dump/win now deals. He inherited a tough situation but still did a fairly poor job. He had a real prize asset in Bouwmeester yet refusing to eat salary diluted the return because he overestimated the value of cap space.
I hope our group of prospects pans out and I am hopeful some will. I just can't give Feaster much credit for it today when none outside of Monahan have proven much at the NHL level. I would also suspect any GM that had 3 1st round picks in a deep first round would turn the prospect pool around when compares to the GM that made the playoffs 5 out of 8 years as GM (1 year was also lost due to lockout so 7 years of play)