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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Giving away Savard over a coaching feud and then firing the coach two weeks later (trading away his best friend might have made keeping Iggy harder), giving away Giguere and then losing St. Louis for nothing... those are some big gafs.
We had the #1 C gave him away and then spent the next 12 years looking for another.
We had a great goalie, a few years before lucking into Kipper. Getting Miika was pure luck. We got him as an emergency goalie, not as a future franchise player.
Marty St. Louis ultimately killed us in 2004. Not really that long after we let him go for nothing. I know he didn't seem like much, but there had to be a reason Flames scouts and Coates went and got him.
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Well, he didn't give Giguere away. He traded him for a 2nd round pick, which is not terrible value for a then-unproven goalie with 30 games NHL experience.
In any case, two things can be true at the same time: Button made mistakes such as you describe, but he also made moves that worked out well. On balance he was not a good GM, but my original point was simply that he should get at least some credit for the makeup of the 2004 team that brought us so much joy.