Cupless44
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A few posters -- literally maybe 2 or 3 -- think of Benning as a super scout. Many more posters who bring up Benning's solid draft record, myself included, only do so in response to other posters going shopping for increasingly nonsensical ways to undermine it because they can't accept him having even isolated, minor or largely collaborative success of any kind.
Also, Gillis has never been skewered for missing out on one pick in that range, or several, but for missing out on literally all of those picks.
To my recollection, Gillis only ever had one top 10 draft pick. He took Bo Horvat with #9.
But overall the drafting under Gillis was the worst in the NHL. No team drafted less NHL players during that time frame.
But at least he had clues about all other aspects of running a team. Benning has none.