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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
I think you’re remembering it wrong. Feaster refused to even discuss rebuilding until his teams sucked so hard that they were forced to. Before that he tried to sign Brad Richards to an insane deal. He dealt Regehr and kept Sarich instead. He got next to nothing for Iginla and Bouwmeester who still had a year left on his deals. He almost gave up Monahan for O’Reilly. Iginla should’ve been traded a year or two before he did. Did you forgot the fool me twice? He threatened to trade players one deadline if they didn’t show anything and then we stunk it up and he traded nobody.
Feaster was a disaster through and through. Thank god Brad Richards didn’t sign here.
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I’d venture to say that the refusal to rebuild was more of an ownership mandate than Feaster’s plan of attack. I think there was a desire to give the best player in Flames history a cup with the Flames. I don’t think we were ever going to trade him until it became clear he couldn’t win a cup with us. I believe a lot of us fans even at the time never thought it was even a possibility that Iggy wouldn’t finish his career with us until that final season.