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Originally Posted by Goriders
I didn’t see all of them. But it did seem to me that Sutter’s transition from coach to GM wasn’t the best. Especially at the draft table. How many 6’ 4” 225lb plugs from Red Deer can you possibly draft in the first round.
That era of drafting really set the organization back.
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I've seen them all. Sutter really didn't draft well. He traded well for his purposes off the bat, but then got pretty silly and knee jerk with some of them. I think he falls behind Treliving, who had a lot more cap constraints as the rules got tighter and tighter, and pulled off some good trades to match his bad ones. And some of Treliving's moves made sense on paper but just didn't turn out well because the players received just underperformed their history.
Risebrough and Feaster and Button are behind them. All of them made moves that were baffling not just in hindsight, but right up front.