[News] Jay Feaster Finds a Job

[strombad]

Originally Posted by T@T

One word...Ownership

This is complete BS, At the start of the year JBow was worth a bag of pucks and it was Iginla who chose the deal, I would love to see Burke or anyone get a better return in those situations.

What drafts are suspect? From Sutters tenure of one of the NHL's worst prospect pool to the top half on the league.

Before you say Jankowski(who could still turn out great) how about Monahan, Gaudreau, Baertschi, Gillies, Poirier, Klimchuk, Sieloff and Granlund. Sutter only wishs he had drafts where he got propects like this.

Please, just go back to cheering for your looser Oilers.

Always good when the defence of Feaster rests solely on unprovable claims.

Classic.

[Tinordi]

Pretty self serving to demand "proof" when people point out that ownership was meddling and forcing Feaster's hand. The issue isn't whether ownership was meddling, they almost definitely were and gave mandates to "go for it" to team management, it's whether Feaster was a willing colleague in the self delusion or whether Feaster felt that he couldn't make the moves he thought were necessary because the team needed to rebuild.

Based on what Feaster said, it's hard to decide where he was at. Early in his tenure he talked big about that he wasn't hired to blow it up, he was hired to ice a contender. But later on the infamous intellectual honesty comment came up and it seemed like he knew the team needed to rebuild. That one deadline in 2012 was a real waste for the rebuild. Set us back at least a year to returning to a playoff team.