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Old 03-01-2011, 04:53 PM   #41
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The other thing is we had no AHL team at the time Sutter took over, so I think he was trying to make safe draft picks in order to help stock the farm. Once that was done he became more open to drafting more chancy picks with more offensive upside.
See, I don't buy this. You don't draft to fill a safe AHL team, you draft for the big club and hire AHL lifers to fill out the roster. So it's either horrible drafting or horrible vision. Most likely the combo.
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