Steve Yzerman took over the team in the spring of 2010. However, he didn't have time to get a new scouting staff in place in time for the 2010 draft and left it to the previous regime's scouting department. That unfortunately led to a fairly unproductive draft class.
It’s been five years since the 2010 draft class was selected. That draft happened just a few months after Jeff Vinik purchased the Tampa Bay Lightning and weeks after he installed Hall of Famer Steve Yzerman as the General Manager of the team. Without much time to assemble a scouting staff of his own and properly evaluate the available players in the entry draft-class, Yzerman made due with the scouting staff and intelligence assembled by former GM Brian Lawton's people to influence selections by the club.