Best player drafted LAST overall?

[Abyss]

1980 - 10 (210) Philadelphia Andy Brickley
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decent player and great color guy!

 

[slasher]

Why was the draft cut down to 7 rounds?

Maybe a dumb question but.....Why was the draft cut down to 7 rounds? How is the number of players drafted determined?

 

[Malurous]

I think Johnsson benefited hugely from going to a strong Philly team, but yeah he was real good at his peak. Seems to just be "alright" now, but I don't get to watch him much anymore

His offensive production has fallen, true, but he's better defensively. I guess that he's as good overall. Maybe the Minnesota system has something to do with the change too.

 

[Kiddington]

Are you guys serious? Evgeny Afanasiev is the obvious here.

 

[Malurous]

Maybe a dumb question but.....Why was the draft cut down to 7 rounds? How is the number of players drafted determined?

Because you can sign Europeans as free agents now and they don't remain a team's property forever. Before, the later rounds were filled with either 20-something Euros showing promise or older ones who had risen to prominence there.

 

[jcbio11]

Ovechkin.

Remember, Florida used their very last pick(I believe it was the last of the draft as well) a year early in the very slim hope they could argue something about the time space continum, leap years and his birthday, which fell a couple days after the draft cutoff.

This was great thought. You gotta give the organization props for trying something fresh. I know it did bring a smile to my face when they tried it

 

[kimzey59]

Kim Johnsson('94)
or
Gerry Meehan('63)


Andy Brickley was a decent player, but is a distant #3 to those two.

 

[RoyBoyCoy]

Jesper Samuelsson

HAHAHA When we watched the draft. Me and my friend were like "Well, Detroit just drafted a Swede late in the draft. Future Hart Trophy winner"

 

[Stammer Time*]

Tony Hand was the most talented.

Look at his numbers, NHL 09 on Xbox numbers...
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=19065

 

[El Duderino]

Tony Hand was the most talented.

Look at his numbers, NHL 09 on Xbox numbers...
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=19065

Good lord, some of those numbers are just plain ridiculous. Why didn't he ever get a shot in the NHL / AHL?

 

[highoffglass]

WOW...not drafted last but not drafted at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undrafted_NHL_players

wow, that is surprising, I can't believe Ed Belfour wasn't drafted

 

[Darth Milbury]

Kim Johnsson('94)
or
Gerry Meehan('63)


Andy Brickley was a decent player, but is a distant #3 to those two.

Meehan was a great player in his prime (wasn't he the captain of Washington at one point?). But, the draft back then was not the same animal as the post-1967 draft.

 

[Hunter Gathers]

Tony Hand, Kim Johnsson, and Jonathan Ericsson all come to mind.

 

[MXD]

I was hoping somebody would mention Tony Hand...

 

[mercury]

Gotta go with Johnsson. He is #3 in my list of best Flyers defensemen of my memory, after Desjardins and Timonen.


P.S. Gotta wonder what happened for some of those undrafted guys. Ciccarelli and Oates not drafted?

 

[Darth Milbury]

Gotta go with Johnsson. He is #3 in my list of best Flyers defensemen of my memory, after Desjardins and Timonen.


P.S. Gotta wonder what happened for some of those undrafted guys. Ciccarelli and Oates not drafted?

Ciccarelli was a hotshot prospect at one point, but didn't get drafted because of a severe leg injury in juniors.

Oates came through the ranks at a time when their was a bit less focus on NCAA hockey and it was pretty common back then for quality guys to slip through the draft. As you'll recall,the NHL had a supplemental draft for a while as a result.

 

[Kirk- NEHJ]

I go with Kim Johnsson, but Andy Brickley was a pretty decent player in the 80's and early 90's, especially when he went to Boston. He couldn't stay healthy, otherwise he would have had better numbers overall.

 

[RobertKron]

Good lord, some of those numbers are just plain ridiculous. Why didn't he ever get a shot in the NHL / AHL?

If I'm not mistaken, he attended 3 Oilers camps, played a few games in the WHL one year, and was offered a deal with the Oilers' farm team the next year, but he kept going home instead. Sather said something about him being the smartest player on the ice other than Gretzky.

 

[Joey Moss]

Kim Johnson by far..

 

[Joey Moss]

WOW...not drafted last but not drafted at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undrafted_NHL_players

That list sucks, Mike Green WAS drafted

 

[timlap]

That list sucks, Mike Green WAS drafted

Are you thinking of the right Mike Green? They're not talking about the Capitals d-man.

 

[Selanne08*]

HAHAHA When we watched the draft. Me and my friend were like "Well, Detroit just drafted a Swede late in the draft. Future Hart Trophy winner"

your so original

 

[Sens4thecup]

That list sucks, Mike Green WAS drafted

there was a different mike green that played for rangers and panthers

 

[bruinsfan46]

Tony Hand was the most talented.

Look at his numbers, NHL 09 on Xbox numbers...
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=19065

How you can call a guy the most talented because he was able to put crazy numbers in a very weak league is beyond me when Kim Johnsson has actually proven to be a capable NHL player. Tony Hand rarely lead the league in scoring and was often quite a ways back of the league leader. Hand's best point total was 222 in 93-94, the same year a guy scored 319 points. And the one Glenn Sather comment doesn't really mean much, people make hyperbolic statements about players on their team all the time to the media. Kim Johnsson is definitely the answer to the OP's question.

 

[mrSlot]

maybe mark streit should be on the list as well.

mark streit was drafted at the age of 27.
Draft: 2004 - 9th round (262nd overall) by the Montreal Canadiens

gp g a pts +/- pim
261 37 116 153 -15 116

I know that he`s only playing his fourth season but his stats look nice.