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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Based on how Feaster operated you are giving him far too much credit here. Iginla gave a list of teams he was interested in but Feaster assumed that meant he was 100% waiving for those teams.
Once again Feaster didn’t interpret the situation properly and it resulted in the organization embarrassing itself. I remember the day after the trade Ken King was on Prime Time Sports and admitted they should have confirmed with Iginla the move to Boston before agreeing to it.
You are giving the moron who was a joke of a GM credit and trying to lay blame on the all time franchise great as screwing the team? You can’t possibly be doing that can you?
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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Trying to blame anything on Iginla is just petty, and to say that man shafted the team in anyway during his time here? I have no time for that. That’s Oilers fan behaviour to dump on ex-players like that.
Dude had a full NMC and could do whatever he wanted.
The crap return is no one’s fault except Feaster and his incompetent stooge of an assistant Weisbrod.
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You know a guy can be an amazing employee and asset to an organization right up until he isn't. If you go to one of your employees and ask them to give you their word on something, and then they renege on the verbal agreement you had with them, that is a pretty douchy thing to do. Doesn't impact what a great employee they have been in the past, just means they put the screws to you when you believed there was an agreement in hand. This is what happened here.
It's not being mean to Iginla, or denigrating his legacy, to suggest that he screwed the Flames over here. He clearly did. He forced the Flames to take a lesser deal after providing a verbal list of teams he would accept a trade to.
Feaster was indeed a fool for NOT getting in writing the list of teams Iginla could be traded to. He instead treated Iginla like Edwards had treated Iginla during his time in Calgary and took him at his word, negotiating the best deal for the Flames, believing that Iginla would accept a trade to any of the teams he had verbally agreed to earlier. The reality is that Iginla would then pick and choose, forcing the team to accept a lesser deal. What made it even douchier, was Iginla signing with Boston the next off season. Try and defend it all you want, but it was a dick move. Doesn't change a damn thing he did in a Flames uniform or what a great guy he is. He just played hardball and it screwed the team. That was his right and he used that right to his advantage. Feaster screwed up here too, but it was still a dick move by the player. If it were a player on a different team, or any other player than Iginla, we would be saying the exact same thing. We should be able to judge the business side of the game differently from the contribution by the player on the ice.