Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
People keep saying JFJ left us with a crap roster. Maybe so. But he achieved more with that crap than Burke has.
JFJ took over a playoff team that got progressivley worse each season he was here until he was let go. His teams were built on players that got here well before he arrived, just about everyone he added to the team was a bust apart from Niewendyk. He only made bad trades (Rask, 1st, 2nd, 3rd for Toskala and Raycroft). Over his tenure, he added nothing to the depth of the organization and we are feeling that now.
When the Blues were drafting Oshie, Backes and Berglund we got Sagat, Kumkumberg and Oreskevic. When the Rangers were adding Callahan and Dubinsky to thier prospect pool JFJ drafted Robbie Earl and Maxim Semenov.
Gunnarsson was the only player that JFJ drafted who made a significant contribution to this season's team. Kulemin, Frattin and Reimer are other JFJ draftees on the team. Stalberg, Stralman and Tlusty are players he accquired and were here when he left that are elsewhere in the NHL. That's what is meant by he left us a crap roster.
The roster he left us wasn't the same roster that produced the results on the chart that was posted, it was much worse.