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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Simply drafting 1st and 4th overall doesn't make you a good GM or a successful team. Winning the president's trophy and being a contender do. Though his team never won the cup in the end, and look like they are about to free-fall, he did a great job rebuilding that organization into a legitimate powerhouse in the NHL. Very few GMs in this league have built a team from the ground-up like he has that have been as successful.
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I think a lot of McPhee's accomplishments come with the caveat that they were accomplished by feasting on the worst Division in NHL history.
They just raped and pillaged their own division for points because that old SE division was hot garbage.
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