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Originally Posted by Split98
Hagman and Kotalik were one part of the mess. Half the team being on NMCs was another part of it, paired with being at the salary cap missing the playoffs. Not to mention we had little to no prospects to speak of.
Navigating through that was going to cause a few complications, for sure. I would have liked to get a lot more for Regehr and Kotalik taking off really can't be held against Feaster. Definitely an oopsies, but not something Feaster can be blamed for can he?
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So would you define the "team is in a mess" to just be because of NTC/NMC?
Do you consider Doug Wilson (SJ), Dean Lombardi (LA) to have left their teams in a mess?
As for little to no prospects.... sure it wasn't as deep (thanks in large part to trading a franchise forward and franchise defenseman, and a early 1st round draft pick) but I don't believe that "no prospects" stuff to be true. Gio, Brodie, Backlund. But hey... thats the victim of being a playoff team. Look at LA, after Toffoli they don't have a ton of prospects. And drafting.... again I fail to give credit to a GM when the GM himself admits he never watched any of the games of the prospects he drafted... but similarly I cannot blame him for the Jankowski pick either.
Personally - I put him in the catagory of "terrible" more than travesty. I think if Brad Richards, and ROR fiasco (no mater what % of likeliness it would have occurred) came to fruition, then it would be a travesty. As of this time, just the catagory of "terrible." Glad he's gone.