AmericanDream
Thank you Elon!
I think Michigan falls into the camp of guys who just flatline. Year in and year out, they get top-level recruits and so few of them actually meet expectations in the NHL. In the last 25 years, only a handful of players drafted out of UM have 500 games (Chris Tamer, Aaron Ward, Mike Comrie, Mike Cammalleri, and Mike Komisarek). Cammalleri and Comrie are the only ones to hit 100 NHL goals and the only ones to hit 200 points.
First-round picks were Ward, Jason Botterill, Mike Van Ryn, Jeff Jillson, Komisarek, Eric Nystrom, Jeff Tambellini, Al Montoya, and Mark Mitera.
This is just players who were drafted out of UM. Players who were drafted out of high school or the USHL and then went to UM have a similarly dismal track record.
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but I agree that overall, players coming out of Michigan (Hensick, Porter, Hunwick, Kolarik, Jillson, etc) have all under performed or never made it.