2002 re-draft

[Number 57]

One of the worst draft ever

My list:

1 Duncan Keith
2 Rick Nash
3 Jay Bouwmeester
4 Kari Lehtonen
5 Alex Semin
6 Cam Ward
7 Joni Pitkanen
8 Alex Steen
9 Joffrey Lupul
10 Valtteri Filppula
11 Jiri Hudler
12 Jarret Stoll
13 Chris Higgins
14 Matthew Stajan
15 Dennis Wideman
16 Scottie Upshall
17 Tomas Fleischmann
18 Trevor Daley
19 Frans Nielsen
20 Pierre-Marc Bouchard
21 Ryan Whitney
22 James Wisniewski
23 Keith Ballard
24 Johnny Boychuk
25 Josh Harding
26 Tom Gilbert
27 Jonathan Ericsson
28 Maxime Talbot
29 Sean Bergenheim
30 Gregory Campbell

31 Ian White
32 Matt Greene
33 Boyd Gordon
34 Eric Nystrom
35 Matthew Lombardi
36 Paul Ranger
37 Daniel Paille
38 Petr Prucha
39 Jim Slater
40 Pat Dwyer
41 Steve Eminger
42 Anton Babchuk
43 Denis Grebeshkov
44 Tim Brent
45 Ben Eager

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[Philadelphia Ducks]

James Wisniewski seems awful low in that list imo. The top of it looks pretty good though.

 

[La Bamba]

Nielsen, Boychuk, and Wiz are way too low. They are all easily top 12

 

[Seachd]

Where the hell is Jesse Niinimaki?

 

[Lebowski]

That was one hell of a weak draft.

 

[19NYSports91]

Frans Nielsen at 19....Man he's underrated.

 

[Henkka]

Looks like Detroit had 4x 1st picks... when they didn't have any in the real draft.

 

[Skip2myBordyloo]

Ballard over Boychuk? what?

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

James Wisniewski seems awful low in that list imo. The top of it looks pretty good though.

Agreed. At least Wiz still has an NHL job which is more than I can say for Whitney.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Whitney over Boychuk, Ericsson, Ballard & Gilbert?

Atleast they are all in the NHL.

 

[Steamwhistle]

Wisniewski, Nielsen, and Boychuk should all be higher in my opinion. Higgins and Stoll seem a little high.

 

[Real Smart Sens Fan]

Pitkanen too high, Wiz/Boychuk/Ericsson/Nielsen/Daley are too low

pretty good list though, I'm just giving my input

 

[Pulkcannon]

I'd move Matt Greene up a few spots

 

[lawrence]

this is what it should look like

http://www.draftsite.com/nhl/redraft/2002/

 

[TheOllieC]

this is what it should look like

http://www.draftsite.com/nhl/redraft/2002/

No that one is pretty ****** too.

Josh Harding and Daniel Paille over Val Filppula?

 

[Trae]

I'm seeing a lot of current and ex-flames here

 

[SI90]

Matt Greene should be a bit higher imo

 

[ChiGuySez]

Blackhawks did well for that draft. Besides Keith (2-54) and Wisniewski (5-156), Tallon traded Matt Ellison (4-128) for Sharp. Burish (9-282) found a place as a 4th liner and played 378 games over 9 seasons.

 

[Gniwder]

Caps did horrible, 3 picks in the first round and all they got was a little shot of Semin.

GMGM and his staff really didn't focus on skating enough, he had some terrible picks including Eminger and Gordon in that draft.

 

[Trap Jesus]

I think I'd have Steen at 4 when you consider the consistency and longevity. Semin was effectively done in the NHL before he hit 30 and he started at 22. Ward had a front-loaded NHL career as well.

 

[joestevens29]

Thankfully we picked Stoll and Greene in the second round, because man that first round pick was horrid.