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Are there any concerns about jarmo's ability to find defensive talent? I can see a proven and very high "hit" rate for offensive talent both here and at St. Louis but I don't recall very much defensive talent.
For myself I do not ever recall a personnel in college or pro sports who I feel so confident in his ability to draft the best guy at the time of the pick. I would say my hope is that the draft goes exactly as he hopes it does.
Jarmo was Director of Scouting 2002 -2010. Here's a list of NHLers taken in those drafts (D):
David Runblad (1st)
Alex Pietrangelo (1st)
Ian Cole (2nd)
Erik Johnson (1st)
Nikita Nikitin (5th)
Roman Polak (6th)
That's out of 22 D taken (out of 78 picks). Of those 22, only 3 were taken in the second round or higher (Shawn Belle - 1st, Scott Jackson and Brent Ponich - 2nd).