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Originally Posted by Bingo
Sutter especially avoided dmen like the plague
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I'm not sure that's terribly accurate. He just had more pressing needs at forward. He picked a 1000 game player in Phaneuf, got Brodie on the cheap and pulled Giordano out of thin air. That on a team that already had Regehr, Warrener, Lydman, etc. We already had signs of decent depth at defence back in those years, which is why his focus was consistently on forwards.