mcnorth
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- Jun 28, 2011
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I've done it before, but today I went through the Sens draft history and looked at who was available and who was chosen since Muckler took over. Now I know some of you really hate these kinds of discussions of hits and misses, so please feel free to exit the thread now, but I think it's worth looking at and discussing as simple trivia but also to inform our opinions re: effectiveness.
It is incredible how bad we did drafting under Muckler. He and his staff totally failed to identify and select talent. I went in taking a look at who they picked and then asked myself who in the next 30 or so picks could they, or should they, have selected instead.
If you do the same under Murray's tenure, you really get an appreciation of just how good the drafting has been under his watch, and it really, at least for me, improved my optimism about guys like Puempel and some of the young guys we haven't seen make the jump just yet but who are nearing that age where guys do start to make an impression after a couple of years in the minors.
The wasteland years, the coach's graveyard, really is a result of Muckler's poor drafting. We often look at trades or free agent acquisitions as a measure of a GM, and that's fair enough, and we know Muckler was trying to 'win now'. but even then, drafting where he was, he and his staff really failed to reload for half a decade. And when you don't reload, you have to rebuild. The 2002 draft is a real horror show.
So I guess my point is - thanks Mr. Murray! It takes a while when your team fails to add a player from the draft for five years,but we're recovering.
(mods: I looked for the B. Murray thread but couldn't find one. Please merge if there's a thread I missed. Thanks.)
It is incredible how bad we did drafting under Muckler. He and his staff totally failed to identify and select talent. I went in taking a look at who they picked and then asked myself who in the next 30 or so picks could they, or should they, have selected instead.
If you do the same under Murray's tenure, you really get an appreciation of just how good the drafting has been under his watch, and it really, at least for me, improved my optimism about guys like Puempel and some of the young guys we haven't seen make the jump just yet but who are nearing that age where guys do start to make an impression after a couple of years in the minors.
The wasteland years, the coach's graveyard, really is a result of Muckler's poor drafting. We often look at trades or free agent acquisitions as a measure of a GM, and that's fair enough, and we know Muckler was trying to 'win now'. but even then, drafting where he was, he and his staff really failed to reload for half a decade. And when you don't reload, you have to rebuild. The 2002 draft is a real horror show.
So I guess my point is - thanks Mr. Murray! It takes a while when your team fails to add a player from the draft for five years,but we're recovering.
(mods: I looked for the B. Murray thread but couldn't find one. Please merge if there's a thread I missed. Thanks.)