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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
The whole "mandate" thing is overblown.
Giordano, Brodie, Backlund, Bouma and Ferland (ok Ferland and Bouma is a Darryl player) were all brought in as prospects by Darryl. Our draft might be junk in 2004-2006 but things vastly improved by 2007.
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I agree it was overblown, but it was a trend that had us taking guys like Nemiesz.
Either way, I think most teams would see a benefit in having players that were raised around the area.