I was a fan of Jay Feaster as GM and saw what he was trying to do, and obviously today a lot of it has worked out. A little food for thought on the questionable attempted trades/signings;
He, like most GM's was under certain directives during his time here. For most of that time the directive was "We still believe this is a playoff team and your directive is to get us in the playoffs".
Then when that directive changed, Jay fully switched into sell mode, and if still here today, may not have the same success we currently do (who knows) but would still likely be enjoying the accomplishment of a successful second year of a rebuild.
I guess what bugs me a little is that most of the criticism boils down to "Well what if this happened?" "What if Hudler didn't work out like he has" "He wanted to do this and that but thankfully he did that and this instead".
Whereas his successes are you know....things that actually happened.
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