billybudd
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- Feb 1, 2012
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We will never know if Shero's draft is what killed us. He wasn't given the chance to let his picks pan out.
We went to back to back finals in 08 - 09. He still was able to pick out Despres and one of the focal points of the Iginla deal. 2010 we are cup contenders, so obviously we are trading for players to add to our roster. He still picked Beau Bennett and Bryan Rust. Two players that should've been given prominent roles this year. 2011 our entire team got hurt. We got Wilson, Harrington, and Morrow. 2012 we drafted DP, Maatta, Sundqivst, and Murray. 2013 we sold the farm and were still able to get Jarry.
Shero's bad drafting is so ****ing over exaggerated on here it is ridiculous.
Next year our line up is most likely going to be
Kunitz - Crosby - Hornqvist
Perron - Malkin - X
Spaling - Sutter - Bennett
Wilson - X - Rust
Maatta - Letang
Pouliot - Lovejoy
Scuderi - Cole
So, Bennett, Wilson, Rust, Maatta, Pouliot, and Lovejoy were all drafted or signed as unsigned players by Shero.
Spaling, Hornqvist, Sutter, and Cole were all brought into our system due to Shero moves. He drafted Staal and Bort and made the trade that brought Nisky and Neal into our system.
At the end of the day, Bennett has been outperformed, variously, by the likes of Brian Gibbons, Chuck Kobasew, Lee Stempniak, Jussi Jokinen, Chris Conner, Steve Downie, Andrew Ebbett and Blake Comeau. Castoffs, all of them. Wilson and Rust do not look to have either the skill/athleticism to be top 6 or the anything else to be anything else as of yet, though I suppose there's still time.
That those three are the best Shero could do between the 2nd round in 2006 and the 3rd round in 2012 is why it's going to take the Penguins years to dig out of this mess, even if Rutherford doesn't keep digging, which, so far, he is.
It's also beyond weird that you're somehow crediting Shero with Ian Cole.