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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
That was more because Sutter thought he was soft. Reinprecht was a main piece in the trade involving Drury to the Avs and after seeing the player for a season couldn't get him out of town fast enough trading him for 3 games of Brian Boucher and 15 games of Mike LeClerc. He didn't have a lot of patience for players that didn't fit his mold of toughness.
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Sutter's main criteria for assessing a player was whether he'd want him as a teammate on the 1983-84 Blackhawks during a line brawl. By the time he became GM, the game had already passed him by, let alone after post-lockout sea change in the NHL.