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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
A guy so good at being a GM that no one hired him to GM before or after.
His strength was by far at coaching, which is why his coaching career is much more praiseworthy. If anything, we did ourselves a disservice by pushing him into a GM role rather than keeping him as coach-only, Kiprusoff not withstanding.
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I think you missed "at first" in the post you responded to. Sutter wasn't pushed into a GM role, BTW.
I do not disagree that this team is nothing like the 04 team and those that followed, however. Those teams had two exceptional players, a really good defender, and a bunch of imported guys. The present team has a lot more home grown talent, and is deeper, especially down the middle and on defence, and the GM looks to me like he aims at the future far more than Sutter did.