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Actually, it's Craig MacTavish who oversees the Condors IIRC. He also aids the pro scouts, which sours that conceptually.
But again, how can you really look at this as a results based business when we're talking about bit players in a larger machine where, from the outside, it's impossible to know which parts are working and which parts are not?
Are the Condors so successful because management and coaching did something (certainly there were few Jay Woodcroft fans on this board last year) or because they had a huge influx of young talent, including the best rookie line in the league and a rookie goaltender who has been standing on his head in 2019?
Is it worth laying waste to the damned skating and video coaches when the biggest problem could have been as simple as Peter Chiarelli's direction actively hurting the roster depth?
I was more pointing out that the Condors depth of quality young players didn't occur in a vacuum, I didn't mean to imply that it was all due to drafting. The success of the Bakersfield team is due to a lot of different positive factors but the prospect depth in the organization in the AHL, and in Junior, is the best it has been in recent memory and that is primarily driven by the club's successful amateur scouting, which really only started after MacGregor was moved out. We all want major changes but that shouldn't include the areas that actually seem to be working as well as every other teams, and scouts don't make the trades.
Chia didn't make his bad choices in a vacuum either, but there is no evidence that it was any of his subordinates that talked him into his series of talent diluting moves. Before he dealt Hall, he had traded Wheeler and Seguin for pennies on the dollar so I don't know that we need to look much past him for the current situation.