Ofcourse some of the credit. Thats why i said judd gets most of the credit not all of the credit.
But generally after the 1st round its the scouting staff who make the picks.
GM and AGM are big part of the discussions for 1st round picks. After that its mostly the director of scouting and his staff.
Even to draft EP40 it was Judd who pushed hard to draft him. He fought hard and stuck to it. Great job by him.
To make EP happen, there were those in the organization who really had to lobby.
“There were some heated debates in our meetings after we knew we were going to be at five,” Linden said, looking back to ’17. “The conviction those guys showed … They fought hard.”