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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Brodie, Backlund, Ferland, Bouma all players on the current team that he drafted. Definitely not great but not horrible considering he didn't draft inside the top 20 from 2004-2010
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Which is a great point. Looking at it from today's perspective makes zero sense. If his mandate had been to rebuild the team and stockpile picks, we probably would have seen a much more conservative approach the last few years he was here. Not only was he GM primarily in an era where drafting was not as big of an emphasis as it has been more recently, but he was also under the gun to continue to compete each and every year.