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Originally Posted by Dagger
Consider that he only grabbed one NHL player in 2002(Paul Ranger) and in 2008 aside from Stamkos, which was a no-brainer he didn't have a 2nd because he traded it for Chris Gratton, who was fresh off a 35 point season, a year prior. Only 8 games were played by any other player he draft in 2008, and they were all due to injuries and an awful goaltending situation. He possessed the top pick in every round, and traded down in many instances to take high potential guys...they all busted.
edit: not saying that he knew that his team would be that bad, just saying that it was awful value for his 2nd at the time
Does it sound like he's changed? His philosophy is still to take big time risks, and disregard non-first round picks for short sighted moves. Then he goes to the draft, wants to take his under the radar guy and trades down to re-coup some of those picks.
He's possibly the worst drafter of all time.
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I think that's the problem when you have a GM who doesn't do any amateur scouting. Unless the team has a super scout running the draft, the odds are that the team is going to be a poor drafting team.
Some people think that it's okay for a GM to be a delegator, but when you have a leader who has no idea how to evaluate talent, how is he able to evaluate the quality of his staff? What is he going to do? Look over the players his scouts recommended over the past years to see if those recommendations were any good? I just think it's totally inefficient.