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Originally Posted by Split98
I agree. I'm just saying you can't in one breath say Feaster was a travesty and turn around and try and tell me that the current management group is so much better.
I'm happy with who we have, but Bollig and Engelland so far look to be questionable moves. They may be great, and I hope they are, but current management have proven nothing so far.
For arguments sake, as I am very happy with Treliving and Burke taking the helm, let's look at some moves we can criticize them for just the same:
Letting Cammalleri walk, and getting nothing for him
Signing a German face-puncher
Engelland making as much per season as most people assumed he'd make on a 3 year contract
Trading pick 83 for Bollig
Kevin Westgarth.
Un-addressed RW and D weakness
Hiller on the goalie pile
And I'm sure there's more.
TO BE CLEAR, so I don't have to defend a position I don't necessarily hold... these are moves that SOME (not necessarily me) could criticize management for. How are these moves better than anything Feaster had done? It's a part of being a GM and building a team. Some pieces won't work out, some roster moves need to be made to meet certain needs. Slamming him and picking each and every single moment apart is asinine and irrelevant.
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I think what you pointed out were small transactions, minimal trades off a bottom feeder team, compared to Feaster who was armed with Iginla, Bouwmeester, Regehr and returned with minimal return. Those were big transactions, and as you'd expect, big transactions get critisized more than middle ones.
I think the transactions that are better comparable would be something like Feaster's trades like a draft pick for PL3, Freddy Modin, Tim Jackman, Blair Jones, David Jones and SOB, and Denis Wideman.
Feaster's "win's like Erixon trade, Hudler... (can't think of any other win's he's had) probably would be on par with something like us trading Reto Berra for a 2nd, and Stempniak for a 3rd.
(FWIW I do not consider the Bollig deal to be a bad trade at all. I rather like the deal. The David Wolf comment is really short sighted, I do not consider this to be a bad deal as there is pretty much no risk to this.)