The NHL teams missing on Shesterkin in the 2014 Draft was a massive collective miss

[Bear of Bad News]

This is not a Rangers comment since they took another goalie in the second round, but if you think he's 2nd round good but will be there in the 4th round, do you take him in the second or fourth if he's still available? I always wonder this, especially with a guy like Tom Brady.

I think if you’re the Rangers, you draft Brady and find an NFL team to trade him to.

 

[BelovedIsles]

Ditto for Sorokin.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

Goalies are unpredictable even when they have good stats. This type of hindsight is pure silliness.

If you go back, the goalies that went right above him had great stats too and could have easily been the draft's best goalie. For example, Husso was bigger and had strong numbers in Finland. Same with Kahkonen.

It also doesn't give enough credit to the Rangers development staff.

 

[Goose]

There's a reason it was a collective miss.

Most of the scouting was based on his time in the MHL, his stats took a dive in his short KHL stint before the draft where he posted a routine .903 over 17 games.

He had a good U18 tournament, with a .937 and a 2.26 GAA, but that tournament is a small sample size, and to put his numbers in perspective, the Canadian goalie that year (Philippe Desrosiers) posted a .970 with 0.8 GAA and the guy never even played an NHL game.

Goalies are hard to predict, there was no way to see what Shesterkin would turn into, and by the way it took him like 5 years of development before he even played in the NHL.

 

[BPD]

True but we went from Hank to Igor seamlessly and have put multiple backups on other teams as starters. The Ranger goalie tree is pretty insane.

Then you have Quick who was completely cooked but this year he was fan freaking tastic. To not give Benoit Allaire a lions share of credit ignores what we have seen from MULTIPLE goalies.

Not taking away from Benny. He's a legend for a reason. But he got some pretty well-formed players with Lundqvist and Shesterkin.

It's a unique talent to be able to help excellent players maintain elite play for extended periods of time. It's an even more unique talent to be able to do it with the consistency he's done it with.

His magnum opuses are Henrik and Shesterkin, but we can't take away that he took guys like Cam Talbot, Martin Biron, Antti Raanta, Ondrej Pavelec, Jaro Halak, Jonathan Quick, and probably a few more I forget about, and in most cases, either made or revived their careers. Or at least made them look good enough to not make the fans cringe when they took the net in lieu of the superstar.

 

[Russian_fanatic]

Lundqvist was in the 7th round. Sorokin, i believe in the third round. I feel like I can only think of Price and Brodeur for the great goalies drafted in the 1st round.

Luongo was the #4 pick

 

[Buttonwood]

Brandon Halverson was drafted by the Rangers 60 picks ahead of Shesterkin.