Posts About "Jay Feaster"
Underappreciated Stajan Hits Milestone
March 21st, 2018 The world of sports is often a world of "what have you done for me lately?" Big trades are often followed by big regrets, and quite often players brought over in big swaps are the subject of doubts, criticisms and even resentment from fans and management alike. Matt Stajan joined the Calgary Flames in January 2010 as part of the...
Flames Mike Smith Gamble Has Paid Off
February 21st, 2018 In Nov. 2003, the Calgary Flames found goaltending stability when they traded a second round pick to the San Jose Sharks for Miikka Kiprusoff. The acquisition ended a decade of scrambling to find stable goaltending, and provided the Flames some strength in net that lasted until his retirement following the 2012-13 season. Since...
Does Wideman Have Any Trade Value?
February 6th, 2017 If you spend any time at all with a fan of the Calgary Flames during one of their games, two things will inevitably happen. First, that person will at some point loudly complain about Dennis Wideman. Second, that person will openly ponder why the Flames haven't traded Wideman yet. Wideman Has a Controversial Past Most discussions of...
Dan Boyle Retires as Last Member of Lightning's 2004 Stanley Cup Team
October 6th, 2016 When Dan Boyle announced his retirement on Wednesday, he became the last remaining member of the Tampa Bay Lightning's 2004 Stanley Cup team to call it an NHL career. The only other remaining players from that team, forwards Vincent Lecavalier and Brad Richards, each ended their respective careers earlier this offseason. Boyle, 40,...
Which NHL GMs Are Getting the Most Out of Their Acquisitions?
July 25th, 2016 Every summer, owners empty their pocketbooks as they watch their general manager's attempt to draft, spend and trade their way to a Stanley Cup. Each year, the goal is to go out and make their team better than the year before. Some are excellent at it, making smart acquisitions during free agency and addressing big-time needs through the...
Flames Pick Mark Jankowski May Be Worth The Wait
March 15th, 2016 It is incredibly rare that a hockey executive's tenure with a club becomes embodied in a single player. However, for the Calgary Flames, the tenure of former general manager Jay Feaster is encompassed in one individual: Providence College senior Mark Jankowski. Four years and four seasons after his initial selection, the 2012 first round...
Five Important Men Lead Calgary's Comeback
April 10th, 2015 The Calgary Flames punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup playoffs last night, qualifying for the post-season for the first time since 2009. The team is a much, much different group than the last line-up that made the playoffs - having only injured captain Mark Giordano in common, and he was injured in 2009, too. Here are five...
Calgary Flames: First Round Draft Duds
June 17th, 2014 The NHL Entry Draft (aka the most wonderful time of the year) is fast approaching, and for the lowest-ranked teams in the league, it is their chance to pick up just what they need the most: that X-factor who can help their team rise up the standings in the seasons to come. But like any acquisition in the NHL, a team's draft selection...
The Crystal Ball: Who Will Be the Next Capitals GM?
May 13th, 2014 With McPhee Out of the Picture, What Does the Crystal Ball Say About Washington's Future GM? The Washington Capitals are an organization that is currently in a transition period. General Manager George McPhee, who was behind the GM helm for 17 years, was fired as general manager on April 26. So what is next? What direction...
2013-14 Calgary Flames: How They Were Built
February 3rd, 2014 Rome wasn't built in a day. Much like a great city, neither is a National Hockey League team. The 2013-14 Calgary Flames roster is the product of transactions conducted by three different men - former GM (and current LA Kings coach) Darryl Sutter, former GM Jay Feaster and current interim GM Brian Burke. The Flames roster presently...The Flames Files: Week Eleven In Review
A four-game stretch for the Calgary Flames went relatively well in the eleventh week of the NHL season, but pretty much all games were overshadowed by the first one, played on Tuesday December 10th. Not because it was against one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, the big bad Boston Bruins. The only storyline that mattered was...
Flip-flop Flames Still Don't Trust Burke With The Wheel
December 13th, 2013 The writing was on the wall for Jay Feaster the minute Brian Burke arrived in town. It was difficult to see how the two were going to work together despite Burke's conciliatory statements when he arrived on September 5th. Sure enough, Feaster's two-and-a-half year tenure came to an abrupt end Thursday as the Flames announced he...
