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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Have we actually? I am not convinced at all that there has been a drafting-philosophy shift in the duration of Treliving's tenure. Can you illustrate otherwise?
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I wasn't a fan of taking Stromgren (big 6'3 winger) over someone like Stankoven or Raty. Also not a big fan of taking Ronni over Hutson or Goyette this year.
I think towards the tail end of the first Sutter era we had a change in drafting philosophy. I pinpoint it to the Baertschi draft. Since then we've really focused on skill, IQ and compete and came away with guys like Baertschi, Granlund, Gaudreau, Mangiapane, Phillips, Kerins, Zavgorodniy and Emilio Petersen. Some hits and misses for sure but that was to me a clear change in drafting philosophy from the Phaneuf, Chucko, Nystrom drafts.
The past two drafts, I think we started to move away from that and back to big guys that play a solid, safe, two-way game. Of course there have been exceptions to both. We did draft Hunter Smith in the "skill and IQ" era and we did draft Jack Beck last year, but overall, I feel like we may have switched our focus back to the low-ceiling, two-way player type of drafting again.