Coates is getting rose colored glasses just since he traded for Iggy and Savard.
But his drafting was poor, there weren't many good pieces when he left the team, and nobody would have thought of him as a good GM when he was fired.
Just getting some retrospective love even though he didn't really accomplish much. Considering where the Flames were drafting the years that he was GM, and that we traded Niewendyk, Fleury, Housley, etc away under his watch, the cupboards should have had more than they did when he was fired that's for sure.
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