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Originally Posted by monkeyman
Yikes. Risebrough was responsible for trading away Makarov, Vernon, MacInnis, Suter, Gilmour, and lesser, but important pieces like Ranheim and Macoun, all for junk. It left this organization a mess for years and years. It's the only reason I give Coates a pass, because he had nothing to work with after that.
Feaster was left holding a bag of crap that Sutter left and is responsible for some of the key pieces of the current roster and prospect pool.
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Button never gets the credit he deserves for the 04 run. 03 was the Flames best trade deadline ever IMO. He would still be a GM today if only he was able to pick goalies ..............or coaches.
There are a lot of reasons why Jay Feaster is the worst Flames GM.When he first started, and the plan was to stay competitive he failed.When it was time to tear it down and rebuild he failed.
The whole core of that team, Iginla, Kiprusoff, Regehr, Bouwmeester, Langkow, Jokinen, Tanguay, Sarich, Bourque he was able to flip for .............virtually nothing. I was just looking at his trade history. Embarrassing. His trades range from terrible to meh. One good trade. Erixon for Horak and two 2nds. (Mcgratton for Piskula worked better for me though)
His drafting/developing is greatly over rated by this board. He drafted Monahan. Great. How did they get 6OA? By sewering a season. And he tried to trade that pick at least twice.
He was so insecure that he often made roster moves purely based on optics. Only very special players go from the CHL directly to the NHL. Apparently Roman Horak is one of those special players. He sure loved to pat himself on the back for that. During the Feaster era STH meetings seemed like spending an hour with a used car salesman.
But what really makes him even worse than Risebrough is all of the embarrassment he caused for the team and its fans. The "ROR fiasco". Remember when he said that letting Jokinen walk was no big deal because he signed the best centerman not in the NHL, Roman Cervenka. And then it came out that Cervenka hadn't played center in years. The way the Iginla trade played out. The whole league was laughing at us. And they had good reason to. Most of my Flames stuff stayed in my closet for a couple of years. One positive for me is that I fell in love with the Roughnecks during the Feaster years.
He made some nice moves. Hartley, Hudler, Gaudreau. His best move IMO was letting Treliving assume a roster without many bad contracts.
Doug Risebrough and Jay Feaster were both terrible Flames GMs. However Doug Risebrough never once made me embarrassed to be a Flames fan. Jay Feaster did. And I am so glad he is gone.