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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
“It was the best offer available” doesn’t stop any of the Iginla, Bouwmeester, Regehr, and Phaneuf trades from being viewed as bad. They were bad when they happened, and they were bad with the power of hindsight.
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Most of those deals were bad because of timing and/or Jay Feaster.
Iginla needed to be traded earlier to get good value for him. Ownership cling to competing in his waning years when Feaster should’ve told them it was time to rebuild. But Feaster was a bit clueless about that.
Bouwmeester didn’t need to be traded when he was, and again, a bad Feaster deal.
Regehr didn’t need to be traded at all. Should’ve been Sarich instead. And again, bad Feaster deal wasn’t it?
Neal had to be dumped. He had to be dumped this summer. It’s hard to win trades where you need to dump a toxic contract badly. And this is the result.