I don't hold Feaster personally accountable for things like trying to deal the Monahan pick, screwing up the Iginla situation, not rebuilding in years prior as I think that is completely on ownership and their representative.
However, he does bear the personal responsibility of being manipulated or choosing to be a yes-man for those circumstances. Giving the organization what they wanted to hear was maybe a professional success in the immediate term, but turned out to be a huge professional mis-step just a couple of short years later.
From that stance alone I doubt he's ever in the captain's chair. A reputation as a yes man is just as dangerous as a reputation for being easily led/misled.
Just imagine where this franchise would be without Monahan and that's all the argument you need for why he'll never find himself in a GMing chair again.
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