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Originally Posted by Beatle17
Everyone keeps harping on the same crap. Lets try to look at them objectively.
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In all of these instances not one effected the Flames as much as 11 NTC/NMC and being at the cap did. By the Flames trying to squeek into the playoffs to keep Iggy happy they screwed themselves out of the chance to draft a highly rated guy for years and had no prospect base to speak of. Once the ownership and management decided to rebuild a new core of players Feaster did a decent job of getting rid of dollars, which directly meant he had to trade all the older high priced players. Did he get back the best returns, probably not, but he created room for younger players and cap space so they can pursue assets when they begin to develop. I have no problem with the direction they chose to move.
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Well this clearly isn't just "objectively" but moreso "subjectively.... all of which, if it wasn't otherwise covered in this thread was covered before, to which I obviously disagree with your opinion and as Split pages ago.....agree to disagree.
To the 2nd bolded portion.... I supposed that is what Feaster is going to pride himself it, but as mentioned earlier in this thread, Feaster's plan/direction went with whatever the wind is blowing. You can't pride yourself on the forsight to rebuild when for the majority of your tenure, you said you are not going to rebuild. Its the equivicating and priding himself on things he did not do that leaves him open to critisism. If he had said "yeah, I f'ed up this and this, I would have done things differently" I would have given him more slack... you can be arrogant when you are good, but when you are crappy and arrogant, then you get critisized. You can't spew off all this crap about cap jail then go after Brad Richards and Ryan Smyth (yes it was confirmed, but Bob MacKenzie on TSN). You can't critisize previous management for dealing picks to win now, then trade off a draft pick to dump salary that only had 1 year left commitment. Its stuff like this article that makes him look like a sleezy used car salesman, just say whatever to pitch the sale...