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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 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.
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So this mess Feaster sorted out was getting 4 mediocre prospects and 2 late fist rounders for our 2 most expensive assets and our goalie retired who had the 4th largest cap hit on the team at the time.
Dennis Wideman is a worse contract than Feaster ever inherited with a full NMC. However since Treliving inherited a team at the bottom (partially due to how Feaster handled the team) the contract won't really impact him.
Feaster slowly killed the team for 3 years I don't see how that is something to be thankful for?
Honestly reading people defend Feaster is making me dislike what we did here even more. Like I said in an earlier post. Feaster inherited a team tat made the playoffs 5 out of the previous 6 seasons so yeah the prospect pool was weak. He missed the playoffs all 3 years he ran the team and finally traded vets for futures so yeah Treliving inherited a nice prospect pool but shouldn't that be expected?