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Originally Posted by Split98
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. I'm just addressing the 'Feaster sucked, Treliving is great!' idea.
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What was the mess? Kotalik, Hagman and Stajan right? (Total, I believe $7-8M)
The solution was giving up Regehr to move Kotalik (Kotalik ended up leaving for Europe anyways, oops)..... Hagman was selected off re-entry waivers, so we had to eat half of his salary..... Stajan is still here.
Feaster's mess he did leave behind included Shane OBrien, David Jones, Denis Wideman, which totals $11M. You could argue we had to move Sarich and Tanguay's salary, both both guys were signed by Feaster. While I agree Feaster acquired a mess, I don't believe he left less dead anchor contracts.
EDIT: I also do not consider Feaster to just be the man that took out the garbage, because one of the contracts he did go after was Brad Ricards..... which would be a dead anchor long term deal. He himself tried to lock us up with a long term, NMC deal.
Thanks Jay.