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Originally Posted by JohnnyTitan
For what it's worth, following on the "it's tough to be in charge" comment aimed at Ken King...I always give Feaster credit for the Iginla / JBow trades.
Could the return have been more a season or two earlier? No doubt. But how frick'in hard must it have been to do that Iginla deal? Even though in hind-sight we all know it was the right thing to do:
1) Trading the face of the franchise
2) Being handcuffed by a no movement clause
3) Officially signalling to EVERYONE that we need to hit the reset button
4) Basically being a villain forever due to #1 above
Someone had to be the guy to trade the best Flame of all time. A life-time Flame. Ken King / Flames executive must have been on-side with the move, but no matter what those are tough waters to navigate. Seeing as how less than 20 months later we're LOVING this team and we haven't even started to reap the benefits of Poirier / Klimchuck (and Bennett...partly earned due to spiraling into rebuild mode) I think Feaster's track record will look pretty good in 5 years from now and I admire how tough of a chore trading Iggy must have been!
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Who in Calgary thinks of Feaster in any way as a villain for having to trade Iginla? I would go and argue that the majority of fans were pushing for a rebuild, and knew that as part of that rebuild Iginla should have returned a hefty package to kickstart it. Remember the booing? Remember a few jerseys on the ice?
In no way was Feaster looked upon as a villain in trading Iginla away. The return? You can argue that Feaster didn't get enough. How the trade got a bit bungled at the end? You can argue that Feaster bungled it a bit with the NTC. What you can not do is label Feaster a villain for trading Iginla.