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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
How is a GM magically going to get better offers when the player will only consider 4 teams (2 of which didn't see interested)? Blaming Feaster when it was one of those offers or lose Iginla for nothing is rather short-sighted. Feaster wasn't a great GM by any means but it seems there are certain situations in which the fans like to pile on him when it isn't warranted.
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While admittedly I blame Iggy for that debacle mostly - how it was handled and how it went down was a big mark on Feaster.
At some point Iggy submitted his list of teams and Boston was on it ..not 100% sure how the process works, but that to me should have given Feaster the green light to make the deal with Boston .
Burke hung on to Cammy due to bad offers ,and although yes we lost Cammy for nothing , I think the history of that paid off in the good return we got for Russell
I love Iggy as much as the next guy, but when he last minute decided to reneg and not accept Boston , we took respect and his reputation too much into consideration .. i believe there was still even a week left before the deadline
Where Feaster I believe dropped the ball was a) he allowed himself to be held over a barrel by the player -- he should have been in the media the next day advising we had a deal but the player reneged , and b) made it clear we will not give him away.. he had almost a week to call Pittsburgh's bluff
he likely would have driven up JBO's price as well by doing that