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Originally Posted by wireframe
My theory is that Button has always run a great scouting department. Every time a new GM comes in, Button shows the ranked list that they produced for each draft and the GM thinks "Wow! I wish we picked those guys. Our team would be so good. You can keep the job." Then, for some reason, they trade the draft picks for Brandon Bollig instead.
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Then Conroy got in the GM's chair, and of course he's known Button for a long time. And he must have said something to the effect of, ‘We've got Picasso on our staff here. Let's give him some freaking paint!’
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