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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
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.)
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Treliving and Burke don't have to deal with the mess Feaster had to sort out, so they don't have an Iginla and Regehr to try and get value for. They have a clean slate to build off of, no gigantic NMCs to navigate around and a prospect pool to work with... thanks to Feaster.
And yes, all of it is short sighted and I don't hate any of their moves yet and I am jacked having Burke, Treliving and Conroy at the helm. I'm just addressing the 'Feaster sucked, Treliving is great!' idea. I'm thankful for what Feaster did to get us to the point where the current crew can keep building a fun team.