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Originally Posted by HighLifeMan
He's got to have one of the worst draft records of all time
He landed one impact NHL player with 37 draft picks and that was Bo Horvat at #9. Five of six first rounders were complete busts (Hodgson, Schroeder, Shinkaruk, Gaunce, and Jensen)
When Ben Hutton is your second best pick over six draft classes you know you failed miserably.
In saying that his ability to steer clear of free agency and not overpay when he did was definitely shrewd.
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This is bang on. Gillis has elite organizational skills & roster construction ability, but terrible on amateur scouting.
Seravelli pointed out that the most important skill set as a GM is being able to assess talent.
The ability to interpret where it is a fit (professional scouting) or where is can be a fit (amateur scouting & development).
Everything else is dependent on effective organization (very important) & utilizing the foundation of talent assessment. If you’re overpaying for anything you will have cap problems, but overpaying for replacement level talent you could have developed is a self inflicted wound.
Treliving wasn’t the worst at this, but also not the best. Conroy was definitely as asset for him.
What I also like about Craig is, like Treliving, he’s able to gather a range of opinions and listen to them to inform or enhance his own.
This was the opposite of Sutter & also what Jay Feaster completely offloaded to those around him.
Craig has also paid his dues in the crappy rinks in crappy weather to watch, identify, recruit, & develop the Hathaways, Duehrs, Mackey & Jooris’s… aka free assets.