Jay Feaster was just joking.

The former Calgary Flames general manager raised some eyebrows on Wednesday night after tweeting his gleeful reaction to the Edmonton Oilers' 3-2 overtime loss to the Winnipeg Jets.

"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," Feaster wrote via his Twitter account.

However, he told TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun Thursday morning for an ESPN.com story that the tweet was meant purely in jest.

"All I have to do is tweet something about the Oilers and I get 100-plus new followers overnight," he said.

"I was just having some fun," he added. "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 was Flames GM from 2010 to 2013 and now serves as the executive director of community hockey development for the Tampa Bay Lightning.

While acknowledging the tweet as a joke, Feaster did also tell LeBrun that the Battle of Alberta has stayed with him, despite being almost a full year removed from the fight.

It's high times for the Flames right now, who sit third in the Pacific Division with 34 points while the Oilers - losers of 11 straight - sit last in the Western Conference with the second-fewest points in the NHL (17 through 26 games).

"I've made the point in tweets before that the Battle of Alberta never leaves you," he said.



"Bob Hartley is a good friend of mine as you know. I have nothing but positive feelings about that group of guys and that team. I'm happy for their success."