Best active players drafted 4th round and lower

[AhosDatsyukian]

And that is also wrong.

He wasn’t drafted in the fourth round or lower.

I mean, OP included Krug and it's his thread so...

 

[Amazinmets73]

Active in NHL or professional hockey?

 

[Cruz]

I don't know if this is some kind of bias. But isn't swedes overrepresented as late round gems? How come?

 

[67 others]

A few that come to mind are Benn, Palat, Krug. For goalies, Khudobin and Halak.

Who else am I missing?

Joe pavelski was a 7th round guy.

 

[M88K]

I don't know if this is some kind of bias. But isn't swedes overrepresented as late round gems? How come?

Because there's not a lot of resources for Sweden available to the largely North American based scoring departments.
Some teams have 1 maybe even 2 scouts for all of Sweden/Finland etc.
So they don't get the number of viewings a typical NA prospect would unless they're lighting their respective league up. So a lot of good players with 1 or 2 bad games get pushed into the if there's nobody else we like pile

 

[rubikscube]

Pionk, Helle.

Even Appleton isn't a bad pick for this. Kind of came out of no where after having injury problems.
11 points in 21 games and has hit a new gear this year.

 

[swissdude]

Benn - Pavelski - Stone
Palat - X - Gaudreau
Lee - X - Kubalik
Hyman - X - Kaprizov

Slavin - Krug
Giordano - Brodie
Muzzin - X

Lundquist
Rinne
Andersen

EDIT: Edited to include other listed players. At what point does this team become a contender?

it may be a little premature this season but i expect that sooner or later philip kurashev will be in the mix as well

 

[Mattb124]

Kevin Labanc was a 6th round pick. Same with John Leonard, which is a name I think a few folks will be familiar with by season's end.

 

[Chrisinroch]

A few that come to mind are Benn, Palat, Krug. For goalies, Khudobin and Halak.

Who else am I missing?

Panarin was undrafted

 

[Shanahanigans]

Oilers drafted Ethan Bear, Caleb Jones, and John Marino in the 4th, 5th, and 6th rounds of the 2015 draft. Bear and Jones are currently on the Oilers roster while Marino is a regular on the Pens.

2015 was a great draft for us, and would have been historic if Chia didn't trade away the #16 and #33 for Reinhart.

 

[SFKingshomer]

Iafallo, Roy, Walker

 

[SFKingshomer]

Benn - Pavelski - Stone
Palat - X - Gaudreau
Lee - X - Kubalik
Hyman - X - Kaprizov

Slavin - Krug
Giordano - Brodie
Muzzin - X

Lundquist
Rinne
Andersen

EDIT: Edited to include other listed players. At what point does this team become a contender?

Matt Roy should be on your blue line.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Yeah, when the only response to Matt Roy is "who?" he's criminally overlooked and underrated.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Giordano (undrafted I believe), TJ Brodie, Jake Muzzin

Literally the only good player the Pens drafted after the 3rd round in the past 15+ seasons and they didn't even sign him.

 

[abo9]

Yeah, when the only response to Matt Roy is "who?" he's criminally overlooked and underrated.

I don't know who he is either but all the good comments about him make me want to check a LA game.

I'm not even following my own team that closely right now, and especially how this year's calendar is set up I don't get the chance to see many teams from other divisions.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Yeah, when the only response to Matt Roy is "who?" he's criminally overlooked and underrated.

Who?

 

[Boud]

JG Pageau

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

I don't know if this is some kind of bias. But isn't swedes overrepresented as late round gems? How come?

Toronto has had some pretty marvellous later round success in that neck of the woods:

64	3	Topi Niemela	D	Karpat [SM-liiga]
168	6	Veeti Miettinen	R	Espoo Jrs. (Finland)
188	7	Pierre Engvall	L	Frolunda (Sweden Jrs.)
202	7	Andreas Johnsson	L	Frolunda Jrs. (Sweden)
194	7	Carl Gunnarsson	D	Linkopings HC [SEL]
161	6	Viktor Stalberg	L	Frolunda Jrs (Sweden)
180	6	Leo Komarov	R	Assat Pori [SM-liiga]
216	7	Anton Stralman	D	Skovde IK [Swe-1]

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

 

[evolutionbaby]

pavelski

Does anyone remember why he was drafted so late? His USHL and college stats looked very good.

 

[Sauce12]

Keith Yandle (4th, 105 OA)

 

[mpir3]

Conor Garland is the best player on the Coyotes. 5th rounder.

 

[The Moose is Loose]

Klingberg has been a top offensive defenseman for years now

Dallas has a lot of quality late picks on their roster rn

 

[Yung Rotini]

Andrew Mangiapane. He's really morphing into a swiss army knife type player, it's been exciting to watch. Passed over completely in his first year of eligibility then taken in the 6th round.

 

[Reaper45]

Alec Martinez. 4th rounder, #95 back in 07.

 

[The Winter Soldier]

I second Pageau and Palat.