Recalled/Assigned: Derek Forbort Gets the Call

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bob77

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It's not a misnomer.

Go through every draft since the league expanded to 12 teams, its rare to see every first round player appear in even one game. How rare? Well, if Forbort plays and makes it so everyone from the first round of the 2010 has appeared in a NHL game it will be just the seventh draft ever to see this happen. The others were 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, and 2003.

If you remove the drafts where the highest drafted player to not play in a NHL game was drafted higher than 31st overall (thus making it equal to a 1st rounder today) That number drops to just four drafts; 1977, 1983, 2003 and 2010.

When I said it is rare for every player in the first round of the draft to make the NHL it is and we are talking over an entire career. The guys from 2010 are all 21-23 years old, they are just starting their careers. The fact all 30 have reached the NHL at this point in their careers should be applauded and acknowledged as amazing.
I agree with your point, and it is amazing. I was just looking at it from the standpoint of him being the last of the 30, and that being last doesn't really mean anything.
 

kingsfan

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I agree with your point, and it is amazing. I was just looking at it from the standpoint of him being the last of the 30, and that being last doesn't really mean anything.

Totally agree. Especially when everyone is so young. Forbort could go on to play 1,000 NHL games for all we know.
 

PJ Kings Hockey

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And Derek Forbort's reading this thread and thinking...

Yo,

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Raccoon Jesus

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bingo.....add in a few of the hot peppers and in 15-minutes you're going to blow out an O-ring

Tommy's does stuff to your insides that should be illegal

no way! We used to eat Tommys before a long hockey road trip up the 5. The stuff was like glue for your insides until you got to the hotel room!
 

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Forbort is probably more of a poutine kind of guy or maybe a Salsbury Burger from Burger Barons. Those things are addictive. Dixie Chicken? Am I doing this right talking about fast food and Forbort. I am going to start associating the two as being the same.
 

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