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Originally Posted by Jacks
I don't think Feaster was a great GM, he wasn't even a good GM but he certainly wasn't the worst we've had. He inherited a fairly disfunctional team full of aging vets on bad contracts (with lots of trade clauses) and a pretty mediocre prospect pool. He cleared out the bad contracts and over the hill players, made some good signings (Hudler, Wideman before he sucked) and loaded up the prospect pipeline. If he hadn't done that groundwork then Treliving wouldn't have been able to do the work he's done, Treliving inherited a pretty clean slate. Feaster made a few mistakes along the way and 2 big near misses but he left the team in much better shape then he found it so I just think he deserves a bit of credit, or at least a little less abuse.
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There is no doubt Feaster took the job at a bad time and was dealt a poor hand. The mandate was to still try and win so he wasn’t allowed to tear it down until Iggy was in his last year.
Hudler proved to be his best free agent signing and might be the best Flames free agent signing in recent memory. Wideman was a bad contract the day it was signed. Fortunately he did have one excellent year in the 5.
Clean slate? He made bad trades for our 2 biggest contracts and our third biggest retired. He inherited a team that would fight for a playoff spot and turned them into a bottom 5 roster.
This team would still be paying Brad Richards $7M if Feaster got his way.