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Originally Posted by Jables16
Not that I've been in favor of all the draft picks Sutter and his staff have made over the years but I wouldn't write off our farm system just yet. I know everyone is aware that the cupboard was empty when Sutter arrived here but I don't think that everyone understands that building the prospect pool means more than just drafting dynamite blue-chippers that can make an impact on the big team right away. We'd all love to have some more guys like that but we do need those other guys to fill out our farm team and be able to come up in relief, play effectively and return to the team when roster players return from injury. Sutter and his staff have an unfair reputation of drafting nothing but "third and fourth line pluggers and checkers" but we didn't even have guys who could do that under the old regime. We need those guys, thus some draft picks were alloted for that.
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That theory doesn't work in Calgary. Sutter brings NHL vets to do just that - Lundmark/Jaffray/Stuart/Eriksson or heck even Mark Smith back in the day.
He drafts pluggers and checkers but they plug and check in the AHL.