Biggest draft bust since 05/06?

[CapSpace]

Sequin?

Said what

 

[mja]

Said what

You're responding to a 5 year old post from a non-active account.

 

[CauZuki]

For me the biggest busts from each year. I left out people who didn't come over and stayed in Europe.

05 draft: Sasha Pokulok. 14th overall.
06 draft- Mark Mitera. 19th overall (almost picked Johnson here)
07 draft- Thomas Hickey. 4th overall
08 Draft- Kyle Beach. 11th overall.
09 draft- Scott Glennie. 9th overall
10 draft- Dylan McIlrath. 10th overall. (almost picked Connolly)
11 draft- Duncan Siemens- 11th overall
12 draft- Too early, but Ryan Murray is my pick here. Injuries and inconsistency worry me.

Lol 2012 had Yakupov....I'd say he's a bigger bust especially having gone 1st overall.

Edit:Just realized this thread is quite old...My bad.

 

[Passchendaele]

Yakupov is a worse 1st overall pick than Daigle, no question.

Daigle at least looked like an NHL player.

 

[stampedingviking]

There seems to be a wide range of opinions on what it means to "bust".

Alexandre Daigle is considered one of the biggest draft busts of all-time. Drafted 1st overall with Lemieux type hype. Sure he never came close to his expectations, but if you posted Daigle's stats without mentioning who it is and where they were drafted I'm not sure if everyone would say that player was a bust. You'd think he was just some 3rd/4th liner.

IMO a "bust" is someone who played less than 50 NHL games, more games than that is a disappointment.

 

[gifted88]

I think it's easy to argue that a 3rd/4th liner out of a 1st overall pick is bust status. 1st overall picks, with few exceptions, become impact players in the league, and most of them become top tier players. To me a bust is a player who falls far short of reasonable expectations given where he was drafted. That makes 4th line/PP specialist Yakupov a bust in my eyes, just as Daigle was.

To me a hockey player who can't cut it in the NHL is a bust. Sure it's extremely disappointing to draft a kid 1st overall and have him turn out to be a bottom 6 player with limited skill. Getting 600+ NHL games in is a short but decent career.

 

[Fixxer]

Not the biggest bust, he played a bit of NHL.... but Nikita Filatov was a tough one to watch.
He thought he had it all before he even had even step on an NHL inside. "Filatov don't do rebounds." he had said... lol

 

[VanJack]

Only guessing, but I imagine that every first overall pick in the draft since '05/'06 had a major impact on the franchise that drafted them....except for Yakupov who was eventually traded for a third-round pick......got to be him by a country mile.