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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
More luck than anything considering the 1st rounder busts of Chucko, Pelech, Nemisz, etc. under that regime which also fit that prototypical Sutter mold.
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Daryl is the one who is responsible for changing the scouting philosophy and placing emphasis on things like hockey IQ. In the old NHL size was very important and most teams placed a great deal of emphasis on it. Sutter realized the game was changing and in 2007 implemented a new scouting philosophy. If you look at Flames drafting this is the year it started to improve greatly. (Backlund, Bouma, Brodie, Ferland, Reinhart, Ortio, Arnold, Erixon which we were able to flip into Granlund and Wotherspoon) Luck is always a part of drafting but I don't think you can dispute the increased success we have seen after Sutter made those changes.