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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Don't forget who drafted Johnny, in a move that went against organizational culture at the time. If Feaster had stuck to drafting big Western Canadian kids, we wouldn't have had this experience of Johnny leaving to go back to the states but we also would have missed out on having Johnny at all. Feaster had a huge positive impact on the team by bucking the organizational culture and believing in Todd Button's judgment about a very small US-born player.
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Yes, JG was drafted on Feaster’s watch. But he had very little to do with it. It was a throwaway 4th round pick where his involvement was saying “ok”.
A bigger display of his (and Weisbrod’s) drafting judgment is the Jankowski fiasco. He also used his first rounders on Poirier, Baertschi, Klimchuk, (and his picks for TB aside from the Stamkos no brainer are no better), his seconds on Seiloff, Wotherspoon and Granlund, and his thirds on Keegan Kanzig and Gillies.