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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
In addition to Kipper the original Tanguay trade and Cammalleri trade was pretty good and so was getting Bourque from the Hawks. I think he made some pretty solid personnel moves over his tenure and had a decent eye for professional talent. That said his eye for junior talent wasn't nearly as good as he seemed to focus overly on size/grit over pure skill and he totally missed on most of his 1st round draft picks and never left himself with any 2nd round picks so his drafts consisted of a total miss on his first pick and no picks until the 3rd round or later. As much as he helped get an AHL team and focus on scouting he never used that scouting effectively and made them focus too narrowly on measured variables like size.\
Bottom line is the reason this thread exists is because both GM's started off great and self destructed over time. They are both comparable for their rise and fall.
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Agreed here. Personally I don't fault Darryl for trading away 2nd round picks for roster players, he had a contending roster and he went for it.
In the end, Darryl had 48 hours of insanity that left a lot of boat anchors on this team, but he still left them Iginla, Regehr, Bouw and Kiprusoff. As for such "poor" under-26 talent, he left Giordano, Brodie, Backlund. In the end, his downfall is he GM'ed like how he coached - to win the next game.
But yes, in the end, he is indeed the 2nd best GM this organization has had. As Pete said above, that doesn't mean he was a great GM though.