C4L:
I agree with almost all of that except I think Sutter's drafting was every bit as bad as advertised. Only 8 out of 59 picks had any kind of NHL career. Phaneuf, Boyd, Prust, Pardy, Backlund, Bouma, Ferland, Brodie, and of those Boyd, Pardy, Prust and Bouma were all "meh" careers. Backlund, Brodie, Phaneuf and Ferland were the only impact draftees by Sutter.
6 players from Treliving's first two drafts alone have played significant NHL minutes (in fairness, I have less faith in the careers of the more recent drafts except for Valimaki, Pelletier and maybe Wolf).
And moreover, his first rounders were just not good picks. Chucko, Pelech, Irving, Nemisz, Erixon. Only 2 decent first rounders, and in hindsight, Phaneuf wasn't the pick we all thought at the time (and even if he was, he was traded for Stajan and a bunch of spares).
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