Read the first few pages for fun just now, and it's interesting seeing the countless "Mark Greig should be fired" posts. No surprise at that reaction. Obviously since he hit a home run with Sanheim, and that was a scout's pick for sure.....and our franchise center and d-man and goalie (hopefully) came from his territory, but they were pretty obvious picks that a monkey could have made, provided the monkey was not employed by the Devils. Even Hart at 48 was the consensus best goalie in the draft. Besides, goalie scouting is specialized and you have other scouts do that. Like Brady Robinson does amateur goalie scouting too, and his ties with Hart are well documented. He likely was the driving force behind that one.
Look at the rest of the picks in his tenure, you have: Garrett Klotz (3), Luca Sbisa (1), Jacob De Serres (3), Adam Morrison (3), Brendan Ranford (7), Marcel Noebels (4), Taylor Leier (4), Reece Willcox (5), Tyrell Goulbourne (3), Radel Fazleev (6), Carsen Twarynski (3). For good measure he was peeing himself at the thought of taking Mirco Mueller at 11.
He definitely has his types, though yeah, who had their hands in what isn't always so simple, and he could've been high on good players in other leagues. But you have guys like Grundberg and Hoodikoff doing great work finding steals, usually with low picks. Don't know who their USHL scout is (I think it's Chris Pryor, the son?), but he's been doing fantastic work. I wouldn't mind kicking more picks their way, if possible. I do wonder how good of a scout Greig is though and how much he'd be missed. Pretty much if he doesn't get a can't miss pick......he misses.