Kaners Bald Spot
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As did many others from scouting to the trainer but Bowman was mostly along for the ride after the core of the team was mostly established.
Tallon doesn't get much credit here but I guarantee if players who lived it were asked Tallon's name would often get mentioned.
Out of all of the GMs, Tallon was probably the worst drafter but nailed Kane and Toews. It's hard to blame him for Barker because that entire 1st round was crap after Ovi and Malkin. That being said, missing on Skille and Beach damaged the team. Bowman was drafting in the latter part of the 1st round and picked a lot of 2nd and 3rd liners, which is all you can reasonably expect at that part of the draft. Mike Smith was a bad drafter outside of 2003 which was a legendary draft. I don't think anyone ever thought Keith would be a HOF.
Wasn't Keith an overager when he was drafted?