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Originally Posted by stormchaser
...Sutter traded away a ton of our picks. The guy traded away 1st and 2nd rounders like they grew on trees...
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It could fairly be said about Sutter that he traded away a high number of second-rounders, but his history with first round picks requires major consideration of context. Outside of those instances in which he made deals at the draft in which he parlayed his first rounder into a slightly lower selection and a second-round pick, he only traded away two first round picks in his entire history with the Flames. The first time he did so was in 2008, when he traded his first and second to LA for Mike Cammalleri and a second, but he recouped the first rounder immediately by trading Tanguay to Montreal.
Sutter traded six of his nine first-round picks between 2003–2011, but the only time under his management that the Flames did not draft in the first round was in 2010, in exchange for Olli Jokinen.