Your teams best 4th round (or later) draft picks

[Ajacied]

The Dallas Stars:

1989: Arthurs Irbe, 10th round
1990: Roman Turek, 6th round
1992: Jere Lehtinen, 4th round
1994: Marty Turco, 5th round
1998: Niko Kapanen, 6th round
2000: Antti Miettinen,7th round
2001: Jussi Jokinen, 6th round

 

[dunwoody_joe]

Atlanta Thrashers:

'99
round 8 #217 overall Garnett Exelby
round 9 #245 overall Tommy Santala (potentially)

'00
round 6 #180 overall Darcy Hordichuk (potentially)

'01
round 6 #189 overall Pasi Nurminen

Not much there really.

 

[jaybone87]

The Leafs have picked up some good ones you may have heard of Tomas Kaberle and Danny Markov.

 

[Teemu]

I dont get to watch many games anymore, moving to indiana isnt a large hockey area, i remenber reading all these great things about him as a leader in Rochester, and I had such high hopes. Then he seemed to fall off the face of the earth, then reappear in calgary, do well, and now in Chicago.

What kind of Role does he play now. is he a more defensive fwd, or that pesky rugged hard nose grinding players a team needs.

He's a gritty nose grinding player. When we signed Nichol last July, we all shook our heads in pity, but he has been pretty good (its too bad we couldnt say the same about nieminen, but he's not our problem anymore). He's fast, he plays well defensively, stands up for his teammates, and he wins faceoffs. I could stand to see a little more body checking from him, but on that note, he's like 5'10".

 

[NJ_Devil_Boy]

85 G Chris Terreri
145 D Slava Fetisov
107 G Kirk McLean
190 D Mike Peluso
149 C Jim Dowd
179 D Jaroslav Modry
200 G Corey Schwab
221 L Valeri Zelepukin
186 C Stephane Yelle
71 D Sheldon Souray
233 C Steve Sullivan
79 C Alyn McCauley
199 D Willie Mitchell

Add

215 G Scott Clemmensen

 

[X-SHARKIE]

I would like to add Christian Ehrhoff to are list.

 

[Jeff Shafer]

Florida
Daniel Tjarnqvist #88 in 95
Peter Worrell #166 in 95
Filip Kuba #192 in 95
Joey Tetarenko #82 in 96 just cause he's on my icon!
Ivan Novoseltsev #95 in 97 (potentially)
Jaroslav Spacek #117 in 98
Ivan Majesky #267 in 01
Future
Josh Olson #190 in 2000
Jeremy Swanson #169 2002
Dany Roussin #223 in 2003
John Hecimovic #264 in 2003

 

[looooob]

He's a gritty nose grinding player. When we signed Nichol last July, we all shook our heads in pity, but he has been pretty good (its too bad we couldnt say the same about nieminen, but he's not our problem anymore). He's fast, he plays well defensively, stands up for his teammates, and he wins faceoffs. I could stand to see a little more body checking from him, but on that note, he's like 5'10".

well I guess Nieminen's our problem now.....3 goals in his last 4 games. we'll learn to live with it somehow.
seems like both teams are happy with a virtual 'swap' of Nichol for Niemenen

 

[IceKatsRHot]

I know it's baseball, but this is still unbelievable:

50 th rd. pick Mike Piazza. Tommy LaSorda picked him as a favour to Piazza's father.

No..

Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 62nd round of the 1988 amateur draft.

 

[monarchy]

Not too many to list for the Kings:
1988 70th overall Rob Blake
1990 133rd overall Robert Lang
1991 81st overall Alexei Zhitnik
1993 250th overall Kimmo Timonen
1996 96th overall Eric Belanger
2000 118th overall Lubomir Visnovsky

Luc Robitaille comes to mind.

Plenty of other 4th+ round picks have played this year: (some simply because of the injuries)
Pirnes, Clarke, Zizka, Brennan, Strbak, Corvo and Cristobal Huet

 

[Chainshot]

Buffalo:
Steals:

Round 5 # 138 Ryan Miller
Round 6 Alex Kotalik
Round 7 Shane Hnidy
Round 6 Sean O'Donnell
Round 5 Alex Mogilny

Decent Picks
Round 4 Matt Barnaby
Round 11 Scott Nichol
Round 6 Brian Holzinger
Round 11 Uwe Krupp
Round 6 Rob Ray


Modern Late rounds look good:
Paul Gaustad Round 7

A couple others to consider:

Keith Carney, 76th overall, 4th round in '88
Donald Audette, 183rd overall, 9th round in '89
Derek Plante, 161st overall, 8th round in '89
Ken Baumgartner, 245h overall, 12th round in '85
Darcy Wakaluk, 144th overall, 7th round in '84

 

[Scottkmlps]

Luc Robitaille comes to mind.

Plenty of other 4th+ round picks have played this year: (some simply because of the injuries)
Pirnes, Clarke, Zizka, Brennan, Strbak, Corvo and Cristobal Huet

1985-2000. Robitaille was drafted in '84.

 

[Skydog]

Whalers/Hurricanes

Michael Nylander Round #4 1991
Manny Legace Round #8 1993
Sami Kapanen Round #4 1995
Josef Vasicek Round #4 1998

 

[Carbonneau]

No..

Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 62nd round of the 1988 amateur draft.

Thanks man for the correction. I read the story on this in SI. Really interesting

 

[Teemu]

well I guess Nieminen's our problem now.....3 goals in his last 4 games. we'll learn to live with it somehow.
seems like both teams are happy with a virtual 'swap' of Nichol for Niemenen

the thing is, ill warn you that it is just like when he joined the hawks. When he first played, he had a strong start with something like 3 points in 5 games, so our fans started to really like him. However, after a little while, he fizzled down to nothing.

For his sake (and Calgary's), I hope that he can stay hot for longer than he did with us.

 

[GKJ]

Flyers: Dennis Seidenberg, Roman Cechmanek, Bruno St. Jacques, Dmitri Tertyshny (had he still been alive)

 

[s7ark]

bonafied:
#90 1993: Eric Daze
#130 1997: Kyle Calder
#183 1998: Tyler Arnason

seem to be:
#188 2002: James Wisniewski
#165 1999: Michael Leighton
#177 2000: Mike Ayers
#128 2002: Matt Ellison
#211 2003: Mike Brodeur
#245 2003: Bubba Byfuglien

Since this seems to be Chicago, where's Dominik Hasek? (10th round, 199th overall) Seems to me that was a steal... sorry, would've been...
1983 btw

 

[s7ark]

Montreal Canadiens
There's probably more

Year Pick Player

1978 231 Chris Nilan
1980 124 Mike McPhee
1986 141 Lyle Odelein
1988 167 Sean Hill
1990 123 Craig Conroy
1991 171 Brian Savage
1993 151 Darcy Tucker
1994 226 Tomas Vokoun
1998 162 Andrei Markov
1998 216 Michael Ryder

also:
1990 102 Paul Dipietro
1990 81 Gilbert Dionne
1988 83 Patrick Kjellberg
1985 79 Brent Gilchrist
1978 201 Slava Fetisov (before NJ got him in 1983)

etc. http://www.canadiens.com/eng/history/draftHistory.cfm

 

[SmokeyClause]

Predators:

Karlis Skrastins 9th round #230 - 1998
Jordin Tootoo - 4th round # 98 - 2001
Martin Erat - 7th round # 191 - 1999

Ain't too shabby. It's too early to tell on most of our drafts (we still have late rounders from 1999 in the works), but from 1998-2001, we were 3 for 4 in terms of pulling an NHL caliber 4th rounder or later.

 

[TomHBlain]

Here's Detroits:

'89 #221 Vladdy Konstantinov
'90 #129 Jason York
'92 #238 Dan McGillis
'94 #257 Tomas Homstrom
'98 #171 Pavel Datsyuk
'99 #210 Henrik Zetterberg

2000 and later nobody made it yet, but there are a few players to keep an eye on there.

Also Knuble in 1991 was a 4th rounder.

 

[monarchy]

1985-2000. Robitaille was drafted in '84.

Doh! Didn't even see the years given. Sorry about that. (Glad I didn't mention Tom Glavine!)

 

[PK*]

Montreal Canadiens since 1985

1985 4th round - 79 C Brent Gilchrist
1986 7th round - 141 D Lyle Odelein
1988 4th round - 83 L Patric Kjellberg
1988 5th round - 93 D Peter Popovic
1988 8th round - 167 D Sean Hill
1990 6th round - 123 C Craig Conroy
1991 6th round - 127 RW Oleg Petrov
1991 8th round - 171 LW Brian Savage
1993 6th round - 151 C Darcy Tucker
1994 9th round - 226 G Tomas Vokoun
1995 7th round - 164 D Stéphane Robidas
1998 6th round - 162 D Andrei Markov
1998 8th round - 216 LW Michael Ryder

Too early to tell:
1999 5th round - 150 D Matt Shasby
2000 8th round - 243 G Joni Puurula
2001 7th round - 203 D Andrew Archer
2002 8th round - 212 RW Jonathan Ferland
2002 9th round - 275 D Konstantin Korneyev
2003 4th round - 113 C Corey Locke
2003 7th round - 217 D Oskari Korpikari
2003 9th round - 271 G Jaroslav Halak

 

[stardog]

I'll do in the Patrick era, so starting 1990

Proven Steals:
Patrick Lalime- 1993 6th round(156)
Jan Hrdina- 1995 5th round(128)
Michal Rozsival- 1996 4th round(105)
Ryan Malone- 1999 4th round(115)
Tomas Surovy- 2001 4th round(120)
Andy Chiodo- 2003 7th round(199)

NHL regulars:
Chris Tamer- 1990 4th round(68)
Ian Moran- 1990 6th round(107)
Serge Aubin- 1994 7th round(161)
Andrew Ference- 1997 8th round(208)
Tom Kostopolous- 1999 7th round(204)

Could Be:
Rob Scuderi- 1998 5th round(134)
Vladimir Malenkykh- 1999 5th round(157)
Michel Oullet- 2000 4th round(124)
David Koci- 2000 5th round(146)
Ben Eaves- 2001 4th round(121)
Tomas Duba- 2001 7th round(217)
Daniel Fernholm- 2002 4th round(101)
Bobby Geopfert- 2002 6th round(171)
Patrick Bartschi- 2002 7th round(202)
Maxime Talbot- 2002 8th round(234)
Paul Bissonette- 2003 4th round(121)
Matt Moulson- 2003 9th round(263)

I dont know if i would call some of those guys "proven" or "steals".

For instance, Chiodo isn't proven yet. He has looked good so far but has played less than ten games in his vareer. IMO, he still has alot left to prove.

And I wouldn't call Rozsival, Hrdina or Lalime "steals" as i guess to me a steal is someone who has a siginificant impact in the NHL. I would also rank Kostopoulos ahead of Rozsival as he is a better player IMO. Roz had the one good year and has been average since.

 

[stardog]

Atlanta Thrashers:

'99
round 8 #217 overall Garnett Exelby
round 9 #245 overall Tommy Santala (potentially)

'00
round 6 #180 overall Darcy Hordichuk (potentially)

'01
round 6 #189 overall Pasi Nurminen

Not much there really.

Yeah but the only reason there isnt much there is because the Thrash haven't been around that long. Exelby was a great pick up that late.

 

[stardog]

well I guess Nieminen's our problem now.....3 goals in his last 4 games. we'll learn to live with it somehow.
seems like both teams are happy with a virtual 'swap' of Nichol for Niemenen

Good luck with that one. Maybe he has turned a corner, but he was awful in Pittsburgh as well.... I didnt even like him when he was here, and thats rare for me to say about a player on my Pens.