GDT: Preseason Game #2 Utah @ Bluesy

[joe galiba]

Jarmo left after the 2010 season, so none of Parayko, Binnington, or Dunn were his picks. AFAIR he wasn’t at the draft table for the Schwartz/Tarasenko draft either, but he gets partial credit for being on the scouting department that year either way.

There were a lot of really deep drafts between 03-10, and he never had a single one without muffing a gimme pick. Shawn Belle at 30th overall in 03 set us back years, imo. He had 24 non-1st round top-100 picks in his tenure, and only hit on 4: Backes, Allen, Bishop, and Soderberg, who never played a game for us. 5 if you count Lehtera. That’s abysmal value for the draft positions he was gifted.

Edit: not to mention that if he drafted Cory Schneider instead of Marek Schwarz then we don’t have to waste assets on Halak or Ryan Miller. The goalie carousel of the mid-2000s - late teens gets avoided entirely.

if he didn’t draft Schwartz, then we probably don’t wind up with Binny and a Cup

maybe Jarmo was a visionary

 

[Thallis]

Jarmo left after the 2010 season, so none of Parayko, Binnington, or Dunn were his picks. AFAIR he wasn’t at the draft table for the Schwartz/Tarasenko draft either, but he gets partial credit for being on the scouting department that year either way.

There were a lot of really deep drafts between 03-10, and he never had a single one without muffing a gimme pick. Shawn Belle at 30th overall in 03 set us back years, imo. He had 24 non-1st round top-100 picks in his tenure, and only hit on 4: Backes, Allen, Bishop, and Soderberg, who never played a game for us. 5 if you count Lehtera. That’s abysmal value for the draft positions he was gifted.

Edit: not to mention that if he drafted Cory Schneider instead of Marek Schwarz then we don’t have to waste assets on Halak or Ryan Miller. The goalie carousel of the mid-2000s - late teens gets avoided entirely.

Yes those were specifically called out as core Bill Armstrong picks vs core Jarmo picks on the 2019 cup team. Schwartz and Tarasenko were considered his "parting gift to the Blues" so it's likely it was his team calling the shots there. It's incredibly easy to armchair quarterback on better individual picks in hindsight, but at the end of the day Backes, Allen, Bishop, Stempniak, Oshie, Perron, Berglund, EJ, Pietrangelo, Eller, Schwartz, and Tarasenko provided the asset foundation for the Blues throughout the 2010s. Those teams were pretty damn successful for such a short rebuild that he drafted through, and it eventually culminated in the cup.