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TJ Brodie, Dion Phaneuf, and Mikael Backlund are pretty much his only impact picks through his whole career.
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Any GM can draft a tweener like Ferland and Bouma. He also got guys like Dustin Boyd and Eric Nystrom. Those guys don't matter. To only have drafted 3 impact players (one of whom he lost his marbles on and traded for spare parts) is a telling sign of how bad being stuck in the old guard can be.