Best 3 or 5 year period for NHL draft????

Status
Not open for further replies.

trahans99

Registered User
Apr 7, 2004
1,443
0
Home of the 2005 Memorial Cup
What is the best 3 year period for drafts in a row?
I think the worst 5 year is from 1992 to 1996 and the best from 2000 to 2004 or 2001 to 2005.

2000: Heatley
2001: Kovalchuk, Spezza
2002: Nash
2003: top 4 and really most of 1st round
2004: Ovechkin, Malkin
2005: Crosby, Brule, Latendresse etc ... etc....

I think 2003-2005 maybe one of the best 3 years in a row ever. Of course 79-82 is pretty remarkable especially for Edmonton alone.

Any thought anyone???
 

Traitor8

Registered User
Nov 3, 2003
4,921
0
Visit site
trahans99 said:
What is the best 3 year period for drafts in a row?
I think the worst 5 year is from 1992 to 1996 and the best from 2000 to 2004 or 2001 to 2005.


2003: top 4 and really most of 1st round

2005: Crosby, Brule, Latendresse etc ... etc....



Any thought anyone???


2003: Let's wait and see who's good and who's a bust if there is any...
2005: Let's see if these players are still up there(other then Crosby) when the 2005 draft rolls around..anything can happen.
 

Epsilon

#basta
Oct 26, 2002
48,464
369
South Cackalacky
2000-2002 is a really outstanding three year stretch to me. Early top 10 (in draft order) for each year:

2000: Dipietro, Heatley, Gaborik, Klesla, Hartnell, Orpik, Frolov, Volchenkov, Williams, Martin

2001: Kovalchuk, Spezza, Svitov, Weiss, Chistov, Komisarek, Ruutu, Hamhuis, Hemsky, Grigorenko

2002: Nash, Lehtonen, Bouwmeester, Pitkanen, Whitney, Lupul, Eminger, Semin, Grebeshkov, Steen

However, without doing too much research I'll nominate 1988-1990 and let someone else argue otherwise. Top 10 for each in no particular order:

1988: Modano, Selanne, Recchi, Roenick, Linden, Brind'Amour, Amonte, Blake, Mogilny, Gelinas

1989: Sundin, Lidstrom, Fedorov, Holik, Guerin, Foote, Bure, Konstantinov, Reichel, Kolzig

1990: Jagr, Brodeur, Nolan, Tkachuk, Hatcher, Weight, Zubov, Bondra, Sydor, Ricci
 

David A. Rainer

Registered User
Jun 10, 2002
7,287
1
Huntington Beach
profile.myspace.com
Epsilon said:
However, without doing too much research I'll nominate 1988-1990 and let someone else argue otherwise. Top 10 for each in no particular order:

1988: Modano, Selanne, Recchi, Roenick, Linden, Brind'Amour, Amonte, Blake, Mogilny, Gelinas

1989: Sundin, Lidstrom, Fedorov, Holik, Guerin, Foote, Bure, Konstantinov, Reichel, Kolzig

1990: Jagr, Brodeur, Nolan, Tkachuk, Hatcher, Weight, Zubov, Bondra, Sydor, Ricci

Those are three nice drafts. Can't argue with that.
 

God Bless Canada

Registered User
Jul 11, 2004
11,793
17
Bentley reunion
I know it's six years, but 1979 to 1984 averaged 5 or 6 current or future Hall-of-Famers a year. 1979 is consensus as the best draft ever, even though there were only 6 rounds. 1980 produced Savard, Murphy, Coffey, Kurri and others. 1981 had Francis, Hawerchuk, Chelios, Fuhr and more. That would be the best three-year stretch, but 1982 to 1984 was incredible, too.
 

Vlad The Impaler

Registered User
Feb 27, 2002
12,315
644
Montreal
Epsilon said:
However, without doing too much research I'll nominate 1988-1990 and let someone else argue otherwise. Top 10 for each in no particular order:

1988: Modano, Selanne, Recchi, Roenick, Linden, Brind'Amour, Amonte, Blake, Mogilny, Gelinas

1989: Sundin, Lidstrom, Fedorov, Holik, Guerin, Foote, Bure, Konstantinov, Reichel, Kolzig

1990: Jagr, Brodeur, Nolan, Tkachuk, Hatcher, Weight, Zubov, Bondra, Sydor, Ricci

Amazing.

PS: Rough count, but I think over 50% of those 30 players have a Stanley Cup ring :eek:
 

ndhockey21

Registered User
Aug 1, 2004
279
0
North Dakota
But the 3 year span from 2000 to 2002 their are players who havent proven themselves unlike the one from 1989 era. So in 10 years you can look from retrospect.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Ad

Upcoming events

Ad

Ad

-->