‘”You evaluate individuals. That’s how you evaluate. Anybody that has scouted, whether you’ve scouted pro players for trades or amateur players, you have scouted tons of players on bad teams and in bad situations, but you still evaluate them. Many of them you still want in your organization; some you don’t, but many, many players that were on bad pro teams and bad amateur teams we have still wanted in our organization, whatever the organization I was with at the time. It’s an individual evaluation basis. You do game rate, there is no question, but it’s not so much game rating as it is future rating. Is this a guy you want to go forward with? You still have to project at the NHL level as well as the amateur level. Is this a guy I want to go forward with? How is he reacting to this and that? So it’s an individual evaluation rather than a team evaluation and you hope you make the right evaluation.”‘
Five Questions: Sabres GM Murray on rebuilding
Source: NHL.com