sa wrote:
> Since Sutter got here the primary thing he has done is get Kipper,
Doesn't he get credit for drafting players like Phaneuf ?
> with out our goalie there would have been no Cup run or anything else
> approaching a winning season. Seems to me although Sutter struck
> gold with Kipper its hard to find anything else he's done and Sutters
> been riding on Kippers coat tails ever since. Maybe the problem isn't
> the coach but rather the GM for the supporting cast Sutter has given
> him.
Dunno. He may not have been top notch as GM in terms of the overall
balance of his decisions, but he hasn't done badly. I look around the
league (even just the playoff scoring race) and I see all the ex-flames
doing well and I try to remember what we actually got for those guys -
most (all ?) of them pre-date Sutter.
Nylander (we got Nazarov ? Dumb at the time, worse now)
St. Louis (did we get anything)
Savard (don't think we got full value for him either)
Drury (can't honestly remember what we got for him)
In fact we did better out of the cases where the players were going to
leave anyway -- for Nieuwendyk and Fleury we ended up with Iggie and
Regehr, two very good players.
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