2005-06 Panthers

BBruins7719428

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Has anyone noticed how many first round draft choices suited up for the Florida Panthers during the 2005-06 season? Has there ever been a team with more first rounders playing for them during a single season?

Gary Roberts 12th overall 1984
Martin Gelinas 7th overall 1988
Chris Gratton 3rd overall 1993
Richard Jackman 5th overall 1996
Olli Jokinen 3rd overall 1997
Roberto Luongo 4th overall 1997
Mike Van Ryn 26th overall 1998
Branislav Mezei 9th overall 1999
Mikhail Yakubov 10th overall 2000
Stephen Weiss 4th overall 2001
Lukas Krajicek 24th overall 2001
Jay Bouwmeester 3rd overall 2002
Petr Taticek 9th overall 2002
Nathan Horton 3rd overall 2003
Anthony Stewart 25th overall 2003
Rostislav Olesz 7th overall 2004
 

RECsGuy*

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Goes to show that no draft position is necessarily better than any other, unless there is a generational talent available. It's all about scouting, which is big part of why that squad and 9 others comprise Florida's decade-long playoff drought.
 

ricky0034

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off the top of my head this years Washington Capitals team was close(looked them up and 15 first rounders played for them,that Florida team had 16 play for them)

Jason Arnott 7th overall 1993
Marco Sturm 21st overall 1996
Scott Hannan 23rd overall 1997
Dave Steckel 30th overall 2001
Alexander Semin 13th overall 2002
Boyd Gordon 17th overall 2002
Eric Fehr 18th overall 2003
Alexander Ovechkin 1st overall 2004
Jeff Schultz 27th overall 2004
Mike Green 29th overall 2004
Nicklas Backstrom 4th overall 2006
Semyon Varlamov 23rd overall 2006
Karl Alzner 5th overall 2007
John Carlson 27th overall 2008
Marcus Johansson 24th overall 2009
 

jkrx

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I honestly don't think its uncommon that a team has alot of 1st rounders. This years Leafs had 10 I think. Panthers 16 might be the record though.

The penguins 05-06 had 12 and 13 or something the year after.

Its hard as before the 90s expansion there werent 26 to 30 1 rounders.

Quebec in '95 had 15 top 25 picks.

The 86 Habs had 15 top 30s.
 

tarheelhockey

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You gotta figure, an average draft sees about 20 NHL regulars drafted in the first round. Lay that out over a decade or two, and there are 200-400 first-round picks in the league at any given time, right? So across 30 teams, that would mean an average of 10 per team? That makes 15-16 not seem so extreme.

I just glanced over Carolina's roster. Jim Rutherford runs this team like a bag lady picking over other people's trash, but he still managed to dress 13 first-rounders this year.
 

vadim sharifijanov

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the canucks of the last ten years have usually hovered around 10-14 first rounders. i think they peaked at 15 in '02:

sedin
sedin
naslund
bertuzzi
cloutier
linden
jovanovski
ohlund
cassels
lachance
allen
todd warriner
drake berehowsky
denis pederson
mike brown

they had 13 this year. but as others have said, i don't think that's rare. even among first round busts, they tend to stick around for a while and play a handful of games as reclamation projects, so they juice the numbers a bit.
 

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Goes to show that no draft position is necessarily better than any other, unless there is a generational talent available. It's all about scouting, which is big part of why that squad and 9 others comprise Florida's decade-long playoff drought.

Untrue...development also has a big part in it, and some teams just can't develop talent.
 

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