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10. You and your father have both identified plenty of young stars: Give me a name you totally missed.
(Button laughs) Just one? The one that I use — and I have to use it — is Marty St. Louis. … In 2004, Marty St. Louis had won the Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay. I was standing in the Bell Centre. I was with Marty, J.S. Gigučre, Steve Bégin and Denis Gauthier. We were just talking, and Marty was being very forgiving: “Oh Craig, you didn’t know.” I said to Marty, “I watched you in midget AAA and you dominated. You played Tier II Junior A, you were a great player. I saw you at the University of Vermont, and you were a great player. And then in the American Hockey League, you were phenomenal. If anybody should have known, it should have been me, based on how much I’d watched you play.” He kind of turned to me, he slapped me on the back and he says, “You’re right – you should have known.”
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This one was also good. He’s never had a GM job again in large part because he bought out a Future Hall of Famer (St. Louis) and traded a future Conn Smythe Trophy winner for a 2nd round pick.
That’s legendarily terrible asset management.