Interesting looking at the roster..... The overall smallness stands out. Lot of individual that were/turned out to be solid long term NHLers (Titov, Cassells, Stillman,McInnis, Iginla, Fluery,Patrick, Morris, Gauthier, Roloson), but overall lack of team size!!
Roster of 1997 SC champs Detroit
link
This provides some context for Sutter drafting the biggest guys available.