Yes I think its Fletcher quite easily
The Hull trade is a blemish (although I will always defend it) and I think (as we have discussed in the player ranking threads) especially near the end he was giving up on guys like Reinhart and Mullen too soon for too little, I think maybe he felt the magic drafting (a la Nilsson ) trade would just keep going and they could keep restocking
look at the teams draft record 79-89- consider that haul in the context of no top 5 draft picks
then add in the success with finding undrafted college players
and he went for it at the right times with trades- in 86 ( a season where they suffered a massive midseason slump) he recognized the push his rookies Vernon, Otto, Suter, Berezan et al were giving his group- adds a Tonelli and a Mullen (I mean really wtf)
leading up to 87-88 or so and through 89 recognizes the team has high octane offence to spare, needs balance- enter McCrimmon, Ramage, Wamsley, Gilmour, Hunter...yes the cost was big but so was the reward
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