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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
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In retrospect, neither of those are actually that bad. Knowing Pitkanen was the pick on the first one, and the alternatives are probably Ryan Whitney or Scottie Upshall, I think you can argue that he won that trade. Pitkanen for Lukowich and a second is arguably a fair trade in retrospect, without even having Fedotenko involved. Replace Pitkanen with most of the guys in the first round after that, and the only one I don't do is probably Steen, you can make an argument for Lupul, Semin, or Cam Ward, but it's obviously a weak draft and I'd make the case that Feaster did quite well there.
The Torres one looks a lot worse if you take Hartnell, who was the next selection, but none of the dozen or so guys after that (maybe Hainsey) were worth anything at all. Torres only produced like more than a 3rd liner in about one season, so I think it's fair to call him that, so basically Feaster got a 2nd, a decent backup goalie, and a non-nhler for a 3rd liner, a 4th, and a 7th. Reasonably even, in the grand scheme of things.