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Originally Posted by Hanna Sniper
It’s funny when people talk about how drafting is done with regarding to GM and head scout. And who wouldn’t have did what.
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I can only post what I think on the basis of what I've read and what I recall from the time. There's good content out there though with quotes from Feaster, Button and Parsons covering the whole process of scouting him through to drafting him. While none of us can say exactly what Sutter would have done, anyone who was a fan back then will remember we were in the Era of "BIG=good" and Johnny weighed in at 135 lbs or something at the draft.
If anything, going back and reading through what it was like for Johnny to be such an underdog that he wasn’t even expecting to be drafted, and thinking of how he developed from there, it's hard not to look at the bigger picture of his career and still want to cheer for him despite the screwed up nature of this departure from the Flames.