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Originally Posted by polak
Ahh another fine Sutter pick....
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I would excuse him for this one. Irving looked great for a few years there and goalies are really difficult to project. We needed a heir apparent to Kiprusoff and he was one of the best goalies available at that spot. Sutter's biggest mistakes were taking two big, slow, project wingers in 04 and 08 and a big, slow project dman in 05. That's three wasted 1st rounders in five years as none of those guys ever had potential beyond being depth players, and they couldn't even do that. High risk/low reward is no way to draft in the first round, at least Irving had starter potential.