ok.. lets count 1995 draft to the 2005 draft...
I am including back up goalies. I do not include guys who play under 25 NHL games. I only did the best drating teams. not every team is listed here.
I am also not including players have did play games in the NHL prior to this year. EG one guy played in the 04 season as a full timer, but is not in the NHL this season.
New Jersey Devils have 13 players
New York Islanders have 11 players
Vancouver Canucks have 10 players, Peter Schaefar, Matt Cooke Bryan Allen Artem Chubarov Jarkko Ruutu , Daniel Sedin Henrik Sedin, R.J Umberger, Kevin Bieska, Ryan Kesler.
Ottawa Senators have 15 players.....
Sharks have 13....
Calgary Flames have 8....
Derek Morris, Steve Begin, Toni LYdman, Oleg Saprykin, Jarret Stoll, Chuck Kobasew, Dion Phaneuf, Kurtis Foster
Penguins have 11.
OIlers have 11.
Habs have 9
Leafs have 7
Adam Mair, Antropov, Brad Boyes, Mikael Tellqvist, Karel Pilar, Kyle Kellwood, Alexander Steen.
Flyers have 9, but in those 9 includes with later picks, the likes of Williams, Gagne, and Mike Richards.
AValanche have 14..
Sabres have 13...
Red Wings have 4..... Jiri Ficher, Nik Krownwall, Datsyuik and Zetterberg within the past 10 draft years.
as i was looking through this, Ottawa sees to have drafted the best players. For a team that is always picking later in the 1st round, players include, Havlat, Volchenkov, MIke Ficher, Patrick Eaves, Meszarous, TEam Gleason, the list goes on. Next up I thought SAn Jose awesome picking up players from the draft.
Calgary has the worst drafting record. 7 of those years, they miss the playoffs, 4 of them top 10 pick, and they still helped the leauge with 8 PLayers.
Leafs is the worst drafting team in the Leauge Nuff said. go to hockeydb and see for yourself.