1996,1997,1998, which top20?

[Debrincat93]

Which top20 best players would you take?

(im going in order they were drafted rank, not actual rank i would have them)

1996
1. Chris Philips
2. J.P. Dumont
3. Richard Jackman
4. Derek Morris
5. Dainius Zubrus
6. Marcus Nilson
7. Marco Sturm
8. Daniel Briere
9. Jan Bulis
10. Colin White
11. Zdeno Chara
12. Tom Poti
13. Oleg Kvasha
14. Mark Parrish
15. Toni Lydman
16. Andreas Dackell
17. Samuel Pahlsson
18. Pavel Kubina
19. Tomas Kaberle
20. Sami Salo

1997
1. Joe Thornton
2. Patrick Marleau
3. Olli Jokinen
4. Roberto Luongo
5. Eric Brewer
6. Paul Mara
7. Sergei Samsonov
8. Nick Boynton
9. Marian Hossa
10. Scott Hannan
11. Brenden Morrow
12. Henrik Tallinder
13. Matt Cooke
14. Ladislav Nagy
15. Kristian Huselius
16. Maxim Afinogenov
17. Antti Laaksonen
18. David Aebischer
19. Kyle Calder
20. Mike York

1998
1. Vincent Lecavalier
2. David Legwand
3. Brad Stuart
4. Vitali Vishnevsky
5. Mark Bell
6. Nikolai Antropov
7. Alex Tanguay
8. Dmitri Kalinin
9. Robyn Regehr
10. Christian Backman
11. Jiri Fischer
12. Mike Van Ryn
13. Scott Gomez
14. Jonathan Cheechoo
15. Ossi Vaananen
16. Mike Fisher
17. Mike Ribeiro
18. Brad Richards
19. Brian Gionta
20. Shawn Horcoff

I got no idea who id pick

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[Alberta Yote]

The first 1998. Which I think is 1997.

 

[Rattrick]

1997, 1998, 1996 in that order.

 

[ftyutin51]

1998.

Marian Hossa? Amazing player. Joe Thornton? Even more amazing. Almost all 20 of those players have had an good career so far. I'm not sure about Laaksonen or Tallinder since I've never really were interested in them..

 

[the_crippler12]

1. Joe Thornton
2. Patrick Marleau
3. Olli Jokinen
4. Roberto Luongo
5. Eric Brewer
6. Paul Mara
7. Sergei Samsonov
8. Nick Boynton
9. Marian Hossa
10. Scott Hannan
11. Brenden Morrow
12. Henrik Tallinder
13. Matt Cooke
14. Ladislav Nagy
15. Kristian Huselius
16. Maxim Afinogenov
17. Antti Laaksonen
18. David Aebischer
19. Kyle Calder
20. Mike York

 

[joe sacco]

'97 seems like the easy choice. Here's my top 20 draft from all three years.
1. Luongo
2. Thornton
3. Chara
4. LeCavalier
5. Richards
6. Hossa
7. Marleau
8. Stuart
9. Samsonov
10. Hannan
11. Jokinen
13. Morrow
14. Gomez
15. Aebischer
16. Regehr
17. Phillips
18. Boynton
19. Kubina
20a. Sturm
20b. Nagy

 

[Garp]

15. Aebischer

He's not even in the top 20. I'd take any players you named after over him.

 

[K9]

Forget about Simon Gagné in the 1998 draft?

either way 1997 is still better

 

[Quiet Robert]

1997, 1998, 1996 in that order.

Same here. I think 1997 is a bit ahead of the rest for now. 1996 is also pretty weak in comparison.

The bottom half of the top20 of 1998 might be a little better and once add Gagné it makes things interesting, but I'd still pick 1997.