[News] Feaster and Weisbrod relieved of duties. Burke will hire a new GM

[St. Pats]

Glad to see it. Feaster was an incompetent boob. His gaffes were or could have been momentous. His moves were mediocre. Accomplished very little. Would rather have Burke in charge anyday of the week. Or his handpicked guy.

[GreenLantern]

-Talks about small players, lots of room for htem
-We just need some beef around them
-I sent a text today to the Coach of BC, said make sure your players know we still love them
-GAUDREAU IS SMALL BUT HE IS GIFTED AS WELL
-THERE IS ROOM FOR SMALL PLAYERS
-THERE IS ROOM FOR SMALL PLAYERS

[btimbit]

Talking about Geadruea

"There's room for small players on our team, but you've got to surround him with some beef"

[GreenLantern2814]

-There's room for the small player in our game, but you better surround him with some beef; referring directly to Johnny Hockey. He's not going anywhere but YYC International.

[Parallex]

Uhg.

What I'm basically hearing here is that Burke is firing Feaster and Weisbrod because they are not Burke. The only thing I liked about the Burke hiring was the hope that Burke would curb some of the Feaster excessess and Feaster would curb the Burke excesses and that the resulting sum would be more then it's parts. He's just gonna hire some spiritual clone of himself and remove any other voices in the room.

I thought the Rebuild was going pretty well. Excellent 1st rebuild draft, great lower round prospect (Gaudreau), excellent farm team, lot's of trades for young NHL'ers that had minimal cost.

Gross.

Sad day for the future of the Calgary Flames.

[Tinordi]

Please shut up about Gaudreau now

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by FFR

I didn't say there was glory now. I think Feaster could have gotten there now that he was able to start actually managing the team, instead of working on getting rid of the baggage.

Feaster made some good moves but he narrowly avoided two major disasters (Richards and ROR), the past few drafts were very average and he got mediocre value for Iginla and Bouwmeester. He fully deserved to be fired today.

[btimbit]

Well, lots of my fears are gone

[DOOM]

Lol Ashax

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

Yup. Live off the back of another GM's work, then get lucky and sign a HHOF defenceman who wants to play with his brother and another HHOF-calibre defenceman who wants the F out of Edmonton.

Easy as pie.

That Selanne guy worked out pretty well for him though. It's easy to forget how terrible he was in Colorado but Burke took the chance on him.

Niedermayer, Pronger, Beauchemin, Moen, Marchant. He inherited a decent team but he built it into the Championship team, luck or not.

[Badgers Nose]

I feel a little better now. Maybe Connie gets Asst GM, but will be GM's call.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Bourque's Twin

Feaster and Weisbrod were turning the Flames into a very NCAA-style team.

Burke is going to flip a U-turn and make it more like the WHL.

Yeah, it's not like being an NCAA-style team ever won us the Cup or anything...

[Flame On]

Brian Burke "Where's the beef around this team?"

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Johnny Hockey isn't going anywhere. And Burke is right, it's easy to bring in the size and beef, a little tougher to bring in elite skill.

[Tinordi]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

That Selanne guy worked out pretty well for him though. It's easy to forget how terrible he was in Colorado but Burke took the chance on him.

Niedermayer, Pronger, Beauchemin, Moen, Marchant. He inherited a decent team but he built it into the Championship team, luck or not.

Yeah pretty weak to suggest Burke had nothing to do with either Anaheim's championship or Canucks emerging into a contender.

[FFR]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Feaster made some good moves but he narrowly avoided two disasters (Richards and ROR), the past few drafts were very average and he got mediocre value for Iginla and Bouwmeester. He fully deserved to be fired today.

You're putting words in my mouth. I didn't say that he didn't deserve to be fired. I just don't like his comment about how Toronto was a different situation than Calgary - when clearly it's quite similar - Burke's just jumping on after the dirty work is done.

[CaramonLS]

Originally Posted by FFR

This irks me. Feaster had to take a team with a ton of pieces that were overpaid and had long contracts with NMC/NTC. The dirty work was done by Feaster so Burke can take the glory.

He also signed some of those NTCs / long contracts... Sarich, Wideman, Tanguay and Babchuk to name a few...

[-TC-]

good presser...

I liked the comments and the Burkes comments about the new GM to pick his assistant, that speaks to his intentions.

[bucksmasher]

was that Eric Francis caught talking about retiring? or Kerr?

[CaptainYooh]

This is what I call an honest and meaningful presser. Thanks, Burky.