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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
A random fun fact about Brian Burke: with TOR in 2011, he traded up in the draft to pick #22 to select [big, truculent, American, great name] Tyler Biggs, who barely managed to play 50+ games twice in the AHL (mostly ECHL). He ended up a contract throw-in on the Kessel to PIT deal 5 years later.
ANA used pick 30 to draft Rakell, and pick 39 on John friggin' Gibson. Most succesfull trade down, ever?
FWIW I don't hate either BT and BB, but they've both made some Chiarelli-level deals.
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Every GM has bad deals. The current darling, Lombardi, traded a first, Colin Miller and Jones for Lucic as a rental. Looch wasn’t bad there, but that’s a lot for a rental. He let Justin Williams walk without getting anything for him. A second for Cloutier was pretty bad too. Rutherford once traded Sami Kapanen for Patel Brendl.