Former Flames GM Jay Feaster takes to Twitter to celebrate Oilers' woes
It's a case of feast or famine in the Alberta hockey scene these days, and a former Calgary Flames general manager is delighting in the continued struggles of his old provincial rivals.
Following a 3-2 overtime loss by the Edmonton Oilers at the hands of the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday, Jay Feaster took to Twitter to do a little bit of gloating:
YEHHHH BABY!!! You can put it in the LOSS column, #Oilers! Entire time I was in Calgary all I heard was how far ahead they were of #Flames
— Jay Feaster (@therealjfeaster) December 4, 2014
Feaster, who served as the Flames GM for three years, was no doubt pointing to the fact that his old team - who fired him in December, 2013 - sit a full 17 points ahead of the Oilers in the standings.
The Flames have won three in a row and have an overall record of 16-8-2, while the Oilers are winless in their past 11 games and dropped to 29th in the NHL standings as a result.
Regardless of the perception, the tweet was all in good fun, Feaster maintains.
"All I have to do is tweet something about the Oilers and I get 100-plus new followers overnight," Feaster told Pierre LeBrun of ESPN.
"I was just having some fun," he continued. "It's my personal twitter account and I was just having fun. I was there four years in Calgary but it did not take me four days to get tuned into the Battle of Alberta. Obviously, people get very wound up and upset about things. But it wasn't done in a hurtful or spiteful way. I'm just having some fun with it."
Feaster is currently working as the executive director of community hockey development for the Tampa Bay Lightning, but emotions from his time in Calgary are clearly still present.
As they say, there's a little truth to every joke.