Team drafting history

[Scottkmlps]

1994
Maple Leafs select G Eric Fichaud at 16th overall. He would play 95 games in the NHL and would never play a single game for the Leafs.
Nobody significant was taken after him in the first round. It was a pretty weak draft year I think.

I beg to differ with the last statement of it being a weak draft. There are quite abit of current NHLer's in the NHL that were selected in that draft. Fichaud did do well in the pre-season games that he played in. I remember watching at least 1 of those on TSN.

 

[TaiMaiShu]

Markus Naslund
Martin Straka
Patrick Lalime
Alexei Morozov
Jan Hrdina
Andrew Ference
Milan Kraft
Konstantin Koltsov
Ryan Malone
Tom Kostopoulos
Brooks Orpik
Colby Armstrong
Noah Welch
Ryan Whitney
Marc-Andre Fleury
Evgeny Malkin
Sidney Crosby

don't act so proud of yourselves... how many of these picks were top 15

 

[RandV]

Is it just me or have the Vancouver Canucks done the worst job at drafting in the last 10 years!

Since Ohlund was selected in the first round in 1994, there have been a total of 18 players that have played for the team. Of those, only 6 remain (7 if you count Chubarov playing in Russia this year). The 2000 draft is looking worse every day (Nathan Smith was our first round pick and he will probably never play in the NHL).

1995 - Chris McAllister, Larry Courville, Peter Schaefer, Brent Sopel
1996 - Josh Holden, Zenith Komarniski, Lubomir Vaic
1997 - Brad Ference, Harold Druken, Matt Cooke
1998 - Bryan Allen, Artem Chubarov, Jarkko Ruuttu
1999 - Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin
2000 - Brandon Reid
2001 - Fedor Fedorov
2002 - None
2003 - Ryan Kesler

The Canucks entire first line, the starting and backup goalie and 4 of the top 5 d-men came via trades. Imagine where the Canucks would be if they didn't trade so well.

If the Sedins, Bryan Allen and Kesler develop as expected, then this post will be wrong but how is the drafting record of other teams?

Every team makes a few bad picks, but in the Canucks case I think it's more bad luck than bad drafting. All high draft picks look pretty much equally sexy from year to year, but they don't all develop the same. I mean, does Atlanta have better scouting than Vancouver because they got to pick high in drafts where Heatley, Kovalchuk, Lehtonen were available, where the Canucks with high picks ended up with Allen and the Sedins?

I mean, compared with some lists people come up with about who got drafted immediately after their pick, we're hardly that bad. Looking at our draft picks the last 10 years, and the next 10 guys taken

95
No first

96
12- Holden, looked good, but injuries ruined his development
13-Morris, 22-Sturm
14-Reasoner, 15-Zubrus, 20-Nilson, ended up better than holden, but probably wouldn't have been if not for injuries
2 misses

97
10 - Ference
11-20 Ward, Hossa, Cleary, Riesen, Zultek, Jones, Dome, Holmqvist, Cherneski, Brown
1 Miss

98
4 - Allen
5-14 Vishnevsky, Fata, Malholtra, Bell, Rupp, Antropov, Herema, Tanguay, Henrich, DesRochers
2 Misses

99
2,3 - Sedins
4-13 Brendl, Connolly, Finley, Beech, Pyatt, Lundmark, Mezei, Saprykin, Schvidki, Rita
0 Misses
00
23 - Nathan Smith, brutal pick
25-Ott, 28-Williams, 29-Kronwall, 33-Schultz
4 Misses

01
16 - Umberger, Solid pick at the time, management screwed things up though
17-Colaiacovo, 19-Morrisonn, 20-Goc, 21-Armstrong, 23-Gleason, , 24-Krajicek, 25-Perezhogin
Too early to tell whats a miss
02
No first rounder
03
Kesler, solid pick
04/05 - Schneider, Bourdan, too early to tell but looks decent so far.

 

[KINGLEWOOD]

The Kings have really improved their drafting from 10 years ago.

Notable draftees:

1995: Aki Berg, Pavel Rosa, Vladimir Tsyplakov (Could have done better.)

1996: Josh Green, Eric Belanger (Not a very strong year)

1997: Oli Jokinen, Scott Barney, Joe Corvo (Better)

1998: Mathieu Biron, Justin Papineau, Kip Brennan, Joe Rullirer, Thomas Zizka (Nothing special)

1999: Frantisek Kaberle, Noah Clarke (Again nothing special)

2000: Alexander Frolov, Andreas Lilja, Yanick Lehoux, Lubomir Visnovsky (Awesome draft year where things would start to turn around)

2001: Michael Cammalleri, Richard Petiot, Cristobal Huet (2 First round busts but the Kings made up for it in the later rounds)

2002: Denis Grebeshkov, Segei Anshakov, Petr Kanko, Aaron Rome, Greg Hogeboom (Real strong draft year)

2003: Dustin Brown, Brian Boyle, Jeff Tambellini, Konstantin Puskarev, Ryan Munce, Brady Murray (Another Awesome draft for the Kings which could hold even more surprises.)

2004: Lauri Tukonen, Paul Baier, Ned Lukacevic, Yutaka Fukufuji
(Not as exciting as previous drafts but solid)

2005: Anze Kopitar, Dany Roussin (These first two should help out sooner than most people think.)

 

[Dropkick Alex]

don't act so proud of yourselves... how many of these picks were top 15

Not to many of them are still on the team either.

 

[MAF]

Markus Naslund
Martin Straka
Patrick Lalime
Alexei Morozov
Jan Hrdina
Andrew Ference
Milan Kraft
Konstantin Koltsov
Ryan Malone
Tom Kostopoulos
Brooks Orpik
Colby Armstrong
Noah Welch
Ryan Whitney
Marc-Andre Fleury
Evgeny Malkin
Sidney Crosby

Fantastic job by CP, but the draft years 89-94 were really horrible:

1989:
16 D Jamie Heward
37 D Paul Laus
58 L John Brill
79 D Todd Nelson
100 W Tom Nevers
121 Mike Markovich
126 R Mike Needham
142 Pat Schafhauser
163 L David Shute
184 Andrew Wolf
205 F Greg Hagen
226 Scott Farrell
247 C Jason Smart

1990:
5 R Jaromir Jagr
61 L Joe Dziedzic
68 D Chris Tamer
89 L Brian Farrell
107 R Ian Moran
110 G Denis Casey
130 Mika Valila
131 D Ken Plaquin
145 D Patrick Neaton
152 Petteri Koskimaki
173 L Ladislav Karabin
194 L Tim Fingerhut
215 F Michael Thompson
236 D Brian Bruininks

1991:
16 L Markus Naslund
38 C Rusty Fitzgerald
60 D Shane Peacock
82 Joe Tamminen
104 D Rob Melanson
126 R Brian Clifford
148 R Ed Patterson
170 D Peter McLaughlin
192 G Jeff Lembke
214 D Chris Tok
236 D Paul Dyck
258 D Pasi Huura

1992:
19 C Martin Straka
43 D Marc Hussey
67 D Travis Thiessen
91 Todd Klassen
115 G Philippe DeRouville
139 Artem Kopot
163 F Jan Alinc
187 L Fran Bussey
211 C Brian Bonin
235 L Brian Callahan

1993:
26 D Stefan Bergkvist
52 C Domenic Pittis
62 L David Roche
104 D Jonas Junkka
130 D Chris Kelleher
156 G Patrick Lalime
182 L Sean Selmser
208 Larry McMorran
234 C Tim Harberts
260 C Leonid Toropchenko
286 D Hans Jonsson

1994:
24 C Chris Wells
50 C Richard Park
57 D Sven Butenschon
73 L Greg Crozier
76 D Alexei Krivchenkov
102 D Tom O'Connor
128 W Clint Johnson
154 F Valentin Morozov
161 C Serge Aubin
180 D Drew Palmer
206 C Boris Zelenko
232 D Jason Godbout
258 Mikhail Kazakevich
284 G Brian Leitza

We had 3 phenomenal 1st rounders (one of them unfortunately developed with another team and 1 solig goaltender (who unfortunately spent only half a season with Pittsburgh).

So except these 4 players, the drafts were very, very poor, but luckily it got better over the years.

 

[Vote Quimby]

Every team makes a few bad picks, but in the Canucks case I think it's more bad luck than bad drafting. All high draft picks look pretty much equally sexy from year to year, but they don't all develop the same. I mean, does Atlanta have better scouting than Vancouver because they got to pick high in drafts where Heatley, Kovalchuk, Lehtonen were available, where the Canucks with high picks ended up with Allen and the Sedins?

Anyone drafted from 2000 on still has a chance to develop especially goalies and defenceman. Usually you see glimmers of success based on minor league numbers or appearances with the big club so guys like Kesler and Allen can still prove me wrong. My point was simply that the Canucks first round picks seem so poor even when drafting high.

If I go back to 92 up to 2000 and do a run down of the entire draft (like x-bob).

Red = really good picks
Blue = Big Busts

1992

21 C Libor Polasek - 0 GP - Still playing in Slovakia
40 C Mike Peca - Excellent pick - 622 GP, 371 Pts
45 G Mike Fountain - 11 GP, 2 wins
69 R Jeff Connolly - 0 GP
93 D Brent Tully - 0 GP
110 R Brian Loney - 12 GP, 5 pts
117 D Adrian Aucoin - 602 GP, 245 pts
141 L Jason Clark - 0 GP
165 R Scott Hollis - 0 GP
213 G Sonny Mignacca - 0 GP
237 D Mark Wotton - 43 GP, 9 pts
261 D Aaron Boh - 0 GP

Draft Review - B - 2 excellent players in Peca and Aucoin drafted but huge bust in Polasek keeps grade down. Good draft overall.
Steal of the draft - Adrian Aucoin
Bust of the draft - Libor Polasek
Total numbers 1290 Games played, 2 wins and 630 points

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1993
20 D Mike Wilson - 336 GP, 57 Pts Below average defensive d-man
46 C Rick Girard - showed promise but didn't play in NHL - Currently in Germany
98 G Dieter Kochan - 21 NHL games - 1 measly win
124 R Scott Walker - Excellent pick. 574 GP, 275 pts
150 Troy Creuer - 0 GP
176 Evgeny Babariko - 0 GP
202 R Sean Tallaire - 0 GP
254 D Bert Robertsson 123 GP, 14 pts
280 G Sergei Tkachenko - 0 GP

Draft Review - C - Only the Walker pick made this draft from becoming a complete waste.
Steal of the draft - Scott Walker
Bust of the draft - Rick Girard
Total numbers 754 Games played, 1 win and 346 points
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1994

13 D Mattias Ohlund - 480 GP, 212 pts. One of the Canucks best ever first round picks
39 C Robb Gordon - 4 GP, 0 Pts
42 C Dave Scatchard - 526 GP, 222 pts
65 D Chad Allan - 0 GP
92 Mike Dubinsky - 0 GP
117 C Yanick Dube - 0 GP
169 C Yuri Kuznetsov - 0 GP
195 R Rob Trumbley - 0 GP
221 W Bill Muckalt - 256 GP, 97 pts
247 L Tyson Nash - 324 GP, 58 pts
273 Robert Longpre - 0 GP

Draft Review - B - Ohlund and Scatchard are good players while Muckalt and Nash are 4th liners. Good draft overall.
Steal of the draft - Save Scatchard
Bust of the draft - Robb Gordon
Total numbers 1590 Games played, and 589 points
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1995

40 D Chris McAllister - 301 GP, 21 pts
61 L Larry Courville - 33 GP, 3 pts
66 L Peter Schaefer - 334 GP, 137 Pts
92 D Lloyd Shaw - 0 GP
120 L Todd Norman - 0 GP
144 D Brent Sopel - 302 GP, 125 pts
170 C Stu Bodtker - 0 GP
196 R Tyler Willis - 0 GP
222 G Jason Cugnet - 0 GP

Draft Review - C- - Only 2 NHL regulars and one other fringe NHL'er for the entire draft
Steal of the draft - Peter Schaefer
Bust of the draft - Chris McAllister
Total numbers 970 Games played, and 286 points
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1996

12 C Josh Holden - 60 GP, 4 pts
75 D Zenith Komarniski - 21 GP, 2 pts
93 R Jonas Soling - 0 GP
121 R Tyler Prosofsky - 0 GP
147 G Nolan McDonald - 0 GP
175 D Clint Cabana - 0 GP
201 C Jeff Scissons - 0 GP
227 C Lubomir Vaic - 9 GP, 2 Pts

Draft Review - D - Only 3 guys that even played a game. No regular players or even 4th liners.
Steal of the draft - Zenith Komarniski
Bust of the draft - Josh Holden
Total numbers 90 Games played, and 8 points
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1997

10 D Brad Ference - 245 GP, 34 pts (563 PIM)
34 D Ryan Bonni - 3 GP, 0 Pts
36 C Harold Druken - 146 GP, 63 pts
64 L Kyle Freadrich - 23 GP, 1 pt
90 C Chris Stanley - 0 GP
114 David Darguzas - 0 GP
117 G Matt Cockell - 0 GP
144 L Matt Cooke - 379 GP, 139 Pts
148 R Larry Shapley - 0 GP
171 Rod Leroux - 0 GP
201 L Denis Martynyuk - 0 GP
227 G Peter Brady - 0 GP

Draft Review - C- - Matt Cooke keeps this draft from being a complete failure
Steal of the draft - Matt Cooke
Bust of the draft - Ryan Bonni
Total numbers 796 Games played, and 237 points
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1998

4 D Bryan Allen - 139 GP, 15 pts
31 C Artem Chubarov - 228 GP, 58 pts
68 L Jarkko Ruutu - 185 GP, 34 pts
81 R Justin Morrison - 0 GP
90 D Regan Darby - 0 GP
136 David Jonsson - 0 GP
140 Rick Bertran - 0 GP
149 R Paul Cabana - 0 GP
177 R Vince Malts - 0 GP
204 C Graig Mischler - 0 GP
219 L Curtis Valentine - 0 GP
232 D Jason Metcalfe -

Draft Review - C - This grade can go up if Bryan Allen develops but can drop to a failing grade if he doesn't
Steal of the draft - Jarkko Ruuttu
Bust of the draft - Bryan Allen?? - 4th overall pick has high expectations
Total numbers 552 Games played, and 107 points
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1999

2 L Daniel Sedin - 315 GP, 151 Pts
3 C Henrik Sedin - 318 GP, 146 Pts
69 D Rene Vydareny - 0 GP
129 L Ryan Thorpe - 0 GP
172 D Josh Reed - 0 GP
189 G Kevin Swanson - 0 GP
218 D Markus Kankaanpera - 0 GP
271 D Darrell Hay - 0 GP

Draft Review - B- - The entire draft was weak and I still believe the Sedins will become good 2nd line players
Steal of the draft - Kevin Swanson
Bust of the draft - Rene Vydareny
Total numbers 633 Games played, and 297 points
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2000

23 C Nathan Smith 2 GP, 0 Pts
71 C Thatcher Bell - 0 GP
93 D Tim Branham - 0 GP
144 F Pavel Duma - 0 GP
208 C Brandon Reid - 10 GP, 6 pts
241 C Nathan Barrett - 0 GP
272 C Tim Smith - 0 GP

Draft Review - F - Smith is a bust already and the only reason he hasn't been released is he is a first rounder
Steal of the draft - Brandon Reid
Bust of the draft - Nathan Smith
Total numbers 12 Games played, and 6 points
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The 2001 draft is looking very weak. Umberger is already on his third team. Bieksa and King might pan out still. 2002 isn't looking any better as none of those picks could be considered blue chip. 2003 has Ryan Kesler and 2004 has Cory Schneider and both of those are blue chippers.

 

[buffalu]

1996


75 D Zenith Komarniski - 21 GP, 2 pts

Steal of the draft - Zenith Komarniski



Your kidding right?

 

[ChesterNimitz]

A Dynasty in Decline

This is how the Montreal draft went from 1990 to 2000

1990 Draft:
1-Turner Stevenson - 12th overall - 613gp, 186pts - Picked before Tkachuck (19th) and Brodeur (21st)
2-Ryan Kuwabara - 39th overall - 0gp - Picked before Renberg (40th) and Kozlov (45th)
3-Charles Poulin - 58th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
4-Robert Guillet - 60th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
5-Gilbert Dionne - 81st overall - 223gp, 130pts -
6-Paul DiPietro - 102 overall - 192gp, 80pts -
7-Craig Conroy - 123rd overall - 609gp, 340pts -
8-Stephen Rohr - 144th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Kovalenko (148th)
9-Brent Fleetwood - 164th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Klee (177th)and Modry (179th)
10-Derek Maguire - 186th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
11-Mark Kettelhut - 207th overall - 0gp, 0pts -

Draft Review: Ordinary draft. Could have been a lot better.
Steal of the draft: Conroy
Bust of the draft: Kuwabara

1991 Draft:
1-Brent Bilodeau - 17th overall - 0gp, -0pts -Picked Before, Glen Murray (18th), Martin Rucinsky (20th), Ray Withney (23rd) and Zigmund Palfy (26th)
2-Jim Campbell - 28th overall - 284gp, 136pts - Picked before Ozolinsh (30th)
3-Craig Darby - 43rd overall - 196gp, 56pts - Picked before Perrault (47rd)
4-Yves Sarault - 61st overall - 106gp, 20pts -
5-Vladimir Vujtek - 73rd overall - 110gp, 37pts - Picked before Knuble (76th)
6-Sylvain LaPointe - 83rd overall - 0gp, 0pts -
7-Brad Layzell - 100th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Lindsay (103rd) and Czerkawski (106th)
8-Tony Prpic - 105th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Czerkawski (106th)
9-Oleg Petrov - 126th overall - 382 gp, 187 pts -
10-Brady Kramer - 149th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
11-Brian Savage - 171st overall - 608gp, 345pts -
12-Scott Fraser - 193rd overall - 71gp, 31pts - Picked before Ulanov (203rd)
13-Greg MacEachern - 215th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
14-P.J. Lepler - 237th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
15-Dale Hooper - 259th overall - 0gp, 0pts -

Draft Review: A very bad draft with 2 steals at the end
Steal of the draft: Savage, Petrov
Bust of the draft: Brent Bilodeau

1992 Draft:
1-David Wilkie - 20th overall - 167gp, 36pts - Picked before Boris Mironov (27th)
2-Valerie Bure - 33rd overall - 621gp, 400pts -
3-Keli Corpse - 44th overall - 0gp , 0pts - Picked before McCarthy (46th), Nikolishin (47th), Norstrom (48th) and Fernandez (52nd)
4-Craig Rivet - 58th overall - 517gp, 101pts -
5-Louis Bernard - 82nd overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Barnaby (83rd) and Lethinen (88th)
6-Marc Lamothe - 92nd overall - 4gp, 0pts - Picked before Ragnarssen (99th)
7-Don Chase - 116th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Aucoin (117th)
8-Martin Sychra - 140th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
9-Christian Proulx - 164th overall - 7gp, 3pts -
10-Mike Burman - 188th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
11-Earl Cronan - 212th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Carter (220th)
12-Trent Cavicchi - 236th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before McGillis (238th)
13-Hiroyuki Miura - 260th overall - 0gp, 0pts -

Draft Review: Not much of a draft. Only 2 acceptable players
Steal of the draft: Rivet
Bust of the draft: Wilkie

1993 Draft:
1-Saku Koivu - 21st overall - 497gp, 398pts -
2-Rory Fitzpatrick - 47th overall - 154gp, 18pts -
3-Sebastien Bordeleau - 73rd overall - 251gp, 98pts -
4-Adam Wiesel - 85th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Daze (90th)
5-Jean-Francois Houle - 99th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Bates (103rd)
6-Jeff Lank - 113th overall - 2gp, 0pts - Picked before Salo (118rd)
7-Dion Darling - 125th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
8-Darcy Tucker - 151st overall - 609gp, 298pts -
9-David Ruhly - 177th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Legace (188th)
10-Alan Letang - 203rd overall - 14gp, 0pts - Picked before Gill (207th)
11-Alex Duchesne - 229th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
12-Brian Larochelle - 255th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
13-Russ Guzior - 281st overall - 0gp, 0pts -

Draft Review: An ok draft with 2 good players
Steal of the draft: Tucker
Bust of the draft: Rory Fitzpatrick

1994 Draft:
1-Brad Brown - 18th overall - 330gp, 29pts - Picked before Cloutier (26th) and Warrener (27th)
2-Jose Theodore - 44th overall - 315gp - Picked before Elias (51st)
3-Marko Kiprusoff - 70th overall - 51gp, 10pts - Picked before Souray (71st) and Drury (72nd)
4-Martin Belanger - 72th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
5-Arto Kuki - 96th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
6-Jimmy Drolet - 122nd overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Turco (124th)
7-Joel Irving - 148th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Andre Roy (151st)
8-Jesse Rezansoff - 174th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
9-Peter Strom - 200th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
10-Tomas Vokoun - 226th overall - 279gp - Picked before Steve Sullivan (233rd)
11-Chris Aldous - 252nd overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Berezin (256th) and Holmstrom (257th)
12-Ross Parsons - 278 overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Kim Johnsson (286th)

Draft Review: 2 great goalies picked in this draft
Steal of the draft: Vokoun
Bust of the draft: None

1995 Draft:
1-Terry Ryan - 8th overall - 8gp, 0pts - Picked before McLaren (9th), Dvorak (10th), Iginla (11th), Giguere (13th), McKee (14th), Biron(16th), Sykora (18th), Morozov (24th) and Denis (29th)
2-Miroslav Guren - 60th overall - 36gp, 4pts - Picked before Shaefer (66th) and Isbister (67th)
3-Martin Hohenberger - 74th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before McCauley (79th)
4-Jonathan Delisle - 86th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Kapanen (87th)
5-Niklas Anger - 122nd overall - 0gp, 0pts -
6-Boyd Olson - 138th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Sopel (144th)
7-Stephane Robidas - 164th overall - 257gp, 46pts - Picked before Worrel (166th)
8-Greg Hart - 190th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Kuba (192nd)
9-Eric Houde - 216 overall - 30 gp, 5pts - Picked before Markov (223rd)

Draft Review: The Worst Draft Ever! Best player to come out of it is Robidas.
Steal of the draft: Robidas
Bust of the draft: Ryan

1996 Draft:
1-Matt Higgins - 18th overall - 57gp, 3pts - Picked before Sturm (21st) and Briere (24th)
2-Mathieu Garon - 44th overall - 43gp - Picked before Collin White (49th)
3-Arron Asham - 71st overall - 278gp, 78pts - Picked before Parrish (79th)
4-Kim Staal - 92nd overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Belanger (96th)
5-Etienne Drapeau - 99th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
6-Daniel Archambault - 127th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
7-Brett Clark - 154th overall - 158gp, 11pts -
8-Timo Vertala - 181st overall - 0gp, 0pts -
9-Mattia Baldi - 207th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
10-Michel Tremblay 233rd overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Sami Salo (239th)

Draft Review: Not much of a draft except for Garon but the whole draft year wasn't to special
Steal of the draft: Garon
Bust of the draft: Higgins

1997 Draft:
1-Jason Ward - 11th overall - 105gp, 20pts - Picked before Hossa (12th)
2-Gregor Baumgartner -37th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
3-Ilkka Mikkola - 65th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Afinogenov (69th)
4-Daniel Tetrault - 91st overall - 0gp, 0pts -
5-Konstantin Sidulov - 118th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Arvedson (119th)
6-Gennady Razin - 12nd overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Calder (130th)
7-Jonathan Desroches - 155th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
8-Ben Guite - 172nd overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Nagy (177th)
9-Petr Kubos - 197th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
10-Jarl Ygranes - 228th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Rachunek (229th)

Draft Review: Horrible draft. Only one player played in the NHL and that's Ward....Ward!!!!
Steal of the draft: None
Bust of the draft: Ward

1998 Draft:
1-Eric Chouinard - 16th overall - 89gp, 22pts - Picked before Skoula (17th), Kalinin (18th), Regher (19th), Gagne (22nd) and Gomez (27th)
2-Mike Ribeiro - 45 overall - 197gp, 102pts -
3-Francois Beauchemin - 75th overall - 1gp, 0pts - Picked before Gionta (82nd)
4-Andre Bashkirov - 132nd overall - 30gp, 3pts - Picked before Raycroft (135th)
5-Gordie Dwyer - 152nd overall - 108gp, 5pts -
6-Andrei Markov - 162nd overall - 267gp, 112pts -
7-Andrei Kruchinin - 189th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
8-Craig Murray - 201st overall - 0gp, 0pts -
9-Michael Ryder - 216th overall - 81gp, 63pts -
10-Darcy Harris - 247th overall - 0gp, 0pts -

Draft Review: One of our best drafts in years! Only 3 players never made the NHL.
Steal of the draft: Ribeiro, Markov and Ryder...what a great draft!
Bust of the draft: Chouinard

1999 Draft:
1-Alexander Buturlin - 39th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Leopold (44th)
2-Matt Carkner - 58th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Zigomanis (64th)
3-Chris Dyment - 97th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
4-Evan Lindsay - 107th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Malone (115th)
5-Dusty Jamieson - 136th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
6-Matt Shasby - 150th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Dimitrakos (155th)
7-Sean Dixon - 167th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
8-Vadim Tarasov - 196th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
9-Mikko Hyytia - 225th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
10-Jerome Marois - 253rd overall - 0gp, 0pts -

Draft Review:Not even one player played one game in the NHL but concidering how bad the draft itself was it's not that bad
Steal of the draft: None
Bust of the draft: All

2000 Draft:
1-Ron Hainsey - 13th overall - 32gp, 2pts - Picked before Orpiks (18th)
2-Marcel Hossa - 16th overall - 59gp, 19pts - Picked before Frolov (20th)
3-Jozef Balej - 78th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
4-Tyler Hanchuck - 79th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
5-Johan Eneqvist - 109th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
6-Christian Larrivee - 114th overall - 0gp, 0pts - Picked before Visnovsky (118th)
7-Ryan Glenn - 145th overall - 0gp, 0pts -
8-Scott Selig - 172nd overall - 0gp, 0pts -
9-Petr Chvojka - 182nd overall - 0gp, 0pts -
10-Joni Puurula - 243rd overall - 0gp, 0pts -

Draft Review:A really bad draft. Hainsey and Hossa still ahve a chance but it's their make or breakc year
Steal of the draft: Balej
Bust of the draft: Hainsey and/ or Hossa (If they have a bad year)

Red = really good picks
Blue = Big Busts

Add a plethora of improvident trades (Chelios, Lemieux, Roy, etc.) to the above noted woeful drafting record and it should surprise no one that this once proud franchise has won only two championships over the past 26 years. Clumsy hands and muddled management have clearly dropped the torch.


That is all.

 

[Le Golie]

Ok I'll play.... New York Islanders

1993
Todd Bertuzzi
Bryan McCabe
Tommy Salo
Darren Van Impe

1994
Brett Lindros
Brad Lukowich

1995
Wade Redden
Jan Hlavac
Vladimir Orszagh

1996
JP Dumont
Dan Lacouture
Zdeno Chara

1997
Roberto Luongo
Eric Brewer

1998
Mike Rupp

1999
Tim Connolly
Taylor Pyatt
Kristian Kudroc
Mattias Weinhandl
Juraj Kolnik
Justin Mapletoft
Radek Martinek

2000
Rick DiPietro
Raffi Torres
Ryan Caldwell
Tomi Pettinen

2001
No picks until the fourth round
Andy Chiodo

2002
Sean Bergenheim

2003
Robert Nilsson
Jeremy Colliton

2004
Petteri Nokelainen
Blake Comeau
Wes O'Neill

 

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1996


75 D Zenith Komarniski - 21 GP, 2 pts

Steal of the draft - Zenith Komarniski



Your kidding right?

Of course I am kidding. But for that year, he was the best player, taking into account who else was selected by the Canucks, not other teams. That pretty much says it all; It was a crappy draft year!!!

 

[Willis]

The '84-'99 Oilers deserve a nod. The worst being:

Jason Bonsignore
Steve Kelly

*barfs*

Don't remind me about that. The entire colisum was filled wiht fans shouting for local boy Shane Doan to be drafted by the Oilers. I can still recall DOAN, DOAN, DOAN. Sather goes up and says Steve Kelly. The hometown team got booed on thier first round selection. Looking back imagine if the Oilers had Doan right now on thier roster as well.

 

[Willis]

I think Oilers are winners here:
90 - someone named Scott Allison was selected 17th overall infront of Keith Tkachuk (19th) and Martin Brodeur(20th). Oh, and Vancouver selected Shawn Antoski 18th..
91- Tyler Wright infront of Alex Kovalev, Glen Murray, Palffy, Naslund.
92- Joe Hulbig (13th) while Gonchar, Peka, Straka were available..
93- Nick Stajduhar (16th). Allison, Koivu and Bertuzzi were selected later.
94- Jason Bonsignore(4th overall). Enough said.
95- Kelly (6th). Doan, Dvorak, Iginla were passed by Oil...
96- Devereaux (6th). But that was a really thin draft.

Hey I do have to say one thing regarding 1994 we did get Ryan Smyth, which is about all I can say. Thats a sad reflection on our scouting in the Sather Years. However things seem to have turned around under K-Lo.

 

[Geese_Howard*]

Look at what the Leafs have done. I posted this over at DMD.
I was looking at our first round draft picks since 1993 and found some disturbing things... :p
1993
Maple Leafs Select RW Landon Wilson at 19th overall. He would never play a single game for us.
Saku Koivu taken 21st overall.
Todd Bertuzzi taken 23rd overall.
1994
Maple Leafs select G Eric Fichaud at 16th overall. He would play 95 games in the NHL and would never play a single game for the Leafs.
Nobody significant was taken after him in the first round. It was a pretty weak draft year I think.
1995
Maple Leafs Select D Jeff Ware at 15th overall. He would play 21 games in the NHL and 15 of those were with the Leafs. Career Point Total=1
Martin Biron taken 16th overall.
Petr Sykora taken 18th overall.
Alexei Morozov taken 24th overall.
1996
No First round picks.
1997
No First or 2nd round picks in a fairly stacked draft. Pretty bad because we could have had a top 5 pick...
1998
Maple Leafs select C Nikolai Antropov at 9th overall.
Alex Tanguay selected 12th overall.
Simon Gagne selected 22nd overall.
1999
Maple Leafs select C Luca Cereda at 24th overall.
Martin Havlat selected 26th overall.
2000
Maple Leafs select C Brad Boyes at 24th overall. He was traded away and has played 1 game in the NHL.
2001
Maple Leafs select D Carlo Colaiacovo at 17th overall. Maybe the first good pick so far, but we have yet to see what he can do in the NHL.
2002
Maple Leafs select C Alexander Steen at 24th overall. A pretty good draft year for the Leafs because we got Matty Stajan in the 2nd round.
2003
No first round draft pick.
2004
No first round draft pick.
2005
Maple Leafs select Tuukka Rask at 21st overall. Only time will tell.

Not pretty is it?

as a leafs fan thats nothing compared to the ballard years, we did draft some decent players but they were always traded away ie Freddie Modin, Kevyn Adamns, etc

some of those picks never panned out but I gotta stick up for ware and cereda, ware had a skate slice his eye causing him to retire and cereda was doing great until he had his heart surgery, I think hes had 2 in total and hasnt been the same since

 

[loadie]

Markus Naslund
Martin Straka
Patrick Lalime
Alexei Morozov
Jan Hrdina
Andrew Ference
Milan Kraft
Konstantin Koltsov
Ryan Malone
Tom Kostopoulos
Brooks Orpik
Colby Armstrong
Noah Welch
Ryan Whitney
Marc-Andre Fleury
Evgeny Malkin
Sidney Crosby

Good picks...funny where ending up around the bottom of the league a few years will do for ya I guess.

 

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Good picks...funny where ending up around the bottom of the league a few years will do for ya I guess.

Why are all you guys forgetting that Pittsburgh was not a bad team until this millenium..!!!!!!

They won the stanley cup two years in a row and drafted Markus Naslund ans Martin Straka the following years...

Meanwhile my Montreal Canadiens drafter Brent Bilodeau and David Wilkie!!!!