Johnny Danger
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how would you rank the drafts from 2000 - 2006 by
a) depth
b) top talent
...? how will the 2006-draft rank?
a) depth
b) top talent
...? how will the 2006-draft rank?
zoomba said:The 2006 draft reminds me a lot of 2002. Back in 2002 there was one player who for years in advance was projected to be at the top of his draft class (Bouwmeester). Bouwmeester fell in the draft, much like Kessel this year. Also, there seems to be a top group of propsects who most people have going at the beginning of the draft in some order (Johnson, Toews, Kessel, Staal, Backstrom). That was the case in 2002 when it was Nash, Lehtonen, Bouwmeester, Pitkanen. After the top group the propsects the others are a little less heralded.
columbus traded up for the first pick in '02. pitt traded up in '03.Jon Prescription said:Uh, Bouwmeester didn't fall. Florida payed the other teams off with picks, etc. not to take him as they traded down. He would've went 1st overall if Florida didn't move down. He would've went first overall even if Florida moved down and another team moved up that wasn't Pittsburgh.
Dark Metamorphosis said:columbus traded up for the first pick in '02. pitt traded up in '03.
Jon Prescription said:Well whatever it was, he didn't fall. Florida traded down but traded some other stuff around so no one else would pick him.
zoomba said:Well regardless of how the inner workings happened that day, Bouwmeester ended up getting picked third, a scenario that would have seemed highly unlikely to anyone projecting the draft a year or two in advance. This is much the same thing as happened with Kessel who some were comparing to Crosby (rightly or wrongfully so) during the WJC's 2 years ago.
Freaky Habs Fan said:Kessel isn't even drafted yet...he still have a chance to go first overall!
As for Bouwmeester, he was indeed the "real" #1 pick because there was a kind of agreement between the 3 team...they knew that Colombus would take Nash, Atlanta Lethonen and Florida Bouwmeester...I'm pretty sure of that.
Freaky Habs Fan said:Kessel isn't even drafted yet...he still have a chance to go first overall!
As for Bouwmeester, he was indeed the "real" #1 pick because there was a kind of agreement between the 3 team...they knew that Colombus would take Nash, Atlanta Lethonen and Florida Bouwmeester...I'm pretty sure of that.
The "Real" #1 pick was Rick Nash. The Panthers "real" #1 pick was Jay Bo. As with any year (outside of generational talents like Ovechkin and Crosby) there is usually a number of picks that could be #1 overall. Each GM's draft list is different.Freaky Habs Fan said:Kessel isn't even drafted yet...he still have a chance to go first overall!
As for Bouwmeester, he was indeed the "real" #1 pick because there was a kind of agreement between the 3 team...they knew that Colombus would take Nash, Atlanta Lethonen and Florida Bouwmeester...I'm pretty sure of that.
JohnGalt said:Jay-Bo was really the first pick overall in the 2002 draft. He wasn't available for the teams picking at #1 and #2. But it was a ******** thing for Rick Dudley to take away the honor of Jay-Bo actually being named the 1st overall choice. What'd Dudley get out of that? A 4th round pick or something? And then a year later he tries to take Ovechkin a year before he's eligible on a leap-year technicality in the last round. What a joker!