Riser for sure. The Gilmour/Leeman deal is just so bad where they lost on not just the two big names, but literally every name included. Macoun/Nattress were both key parts of the blueline here and continued to be in Toronto. It was franchise altering for both teams in opposite ways.
Sutter got the team to the finals so hard to ignore that. But as a GM he wasn't good. He drafted poorly but his narrow view of what a good player is/was caused him to toss aside quality players for next to nothing. Examples including Toni Lydman and Anton Stralman. He just was a VERY poor talent evaluator. And then he lost his mind down the stretch inexplicitly acquiring a guy like Kotalik. I don't think he knew what he was doing.
I admit I have a bias towards him though.
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