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Originally Posted by oilersfan11
Columbus has to have the worst scouting staff in the league.
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We used to. We went from "hideously incompetent on an epic scale" to "average to below-average". The draft is much better now, but it's not at the tremendous scale that would have been necessary to see a quick turnaround from the MacLean years.
Of course, attempts to boost the process with pickups like Mike Commodore and Jeff Carter haven't helped either. And current management has tried way too many times to lean on Steve Mason. But we're actually getting some NHL players out of the later rounds of the draft now, which was almost unthinkable in the early years.