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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher

Wow laughable analysis. Did you actually compare his value mere days before becoming an UFA to his value with a year left on his contract? Those can't be compared directly, total fail there.

The trade remains horrible. You don't trade top pairing defencemen for that little. Feaster got boned on that trade. Feaster needed to get a top prospect and a first or multiple firsts. Bouwmeester with a year left on his deal was traded for barely more than Regehr and Doug Murray were traded for at trade deadlines as pending UFAs. Look at all the entire recent history of NHL trades for defencemen and it's clear that trade was horrible, no matter how bad you think Bouwmeester played for us.

To really put it in perspective Bouwmeester with a year left on his deal as a top pairing dman was traded for a package very similar to what Kris Russell (4/5 dman) was traded for at a trade deadline as an upcoming UFA. Think about that for a minute. Feaster got around the same amount for a top pairing dman with a year left as Treliving traded Russell who many think is a #5 on a good team was traded for with only months left on his deal.

The Bouwmeester trade was a joke by a bad GM. There's no other conclusion you can draw if you compare it to all the defencemen trades made in the past 5-7 years. And this is part of the reason why Feaster was recommended to be turfed by Burke. He lost the Bouwmeester and Regehr trades hard in a league where defencemen are routinely traded for premium commodities.

I know what his status was prior to the Calgary deal. I'm speaking purely in a price paid to price received value. We still came out ahead.