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Originally Posted by Psytic
Well if the alternative is Sutter I think he should stay 100%.
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People say this like Darryl didn’t trade for Kiprusoff, sign Gio, extend Iggy three different times, turn Gauthier and Saprykin into Langkow, find Huselius for free, get 176 points out of Rene Bourque, etc.
He was a terrible drafter, and his trades in the back half of his tenure were too desperate, but he wasn’t wrong to turn his secondary draft capital into players he thought would help Iggy, Kipper and Regehr get across the line.
Darryl only traded a 1st round pick once - for the Jokinen trade. If anything, he should’ve traded it more. Nemisz, Chucko, Irving, Pelech, and Erixon were all objectively terrible pros. We would’ve been better off trading those picks for veterans at the deadline or draft, like we did with Cammalleri - though that was a pick swap with LA 3-way with Montreal to move Tanguay.
Don’t get it twisted, I don’t want him in the big chair again. I do think it’s funny that Gio, Brodie and Backlund were three of our five or six most important players within 18 months of Sutter’s return, and he brought them here in the first place.