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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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.
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Yep. Sutter made a point of keeping his first rounders. If the team was better at drafting in the first round, the team would be in a different position right now. The value Feaster and Weisbrod places/placed on first round picks has scared me. I couldn't believe it when Feaster and Weisbrod were considering trading the first round pick the team used to draft Jankowski. I can understand trading a potential top 5 pick for ROR, but then there's the Iginla trade where Feaster felt the Boston's offer of conditional 1st round pick was better than the Pens offer of a guaranteed first round pick. Luckily, it seems Feaster has changed course, but the odds are that at least one of the Flames' first round pick will be traded before Feaster's is done here.