Chaos Giraffe
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May have been. I've lost track of the florida front office.
What are you talking about? The Panthers haven't changed GMs since their 1st year in the league. All the moves have been the same: boneheaded.
May have been. I've lost track of the florida front office.
What are you talking about? The Panthers haven't changed GMs since their 1st year in the league. All the moves have been the same: boneheaded.
Jiri Dudacek, for iron curtain purposes
There was a coin flip but that was for the expansion draft.Yep. Canucks chose even numbers, Sabres chose odd numbers. It landed on what the Canucks thought was roman numerals for 2, but it was 11.
I don't know why I said coinflip.
I believe that it was Rick Dudley who tried to get that one through was it not? Not Keenan. The argument was pretty novel and involved counting actual days and using leap years since Ovechkin was just over the cut-off date for the draft by a few days.In the 2003 draft Keenan spent his 9th on Ovy and said the four leap years that Ovy lived through pushed him into elligibility for that year. Trying to pull a fast one.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCM/is_1_33/ai_n6355250An 18-year-old center, Ovechkin was so highly regarded for his two-way play that former Florida General Manager Rick Dudley tried to draft him in the ninth round of the 2003 draft, only to have the pick ruled ineligible by the league because Ovechkin was deemed too young.
I thought the same thing as well. A franchise owned by one of the best players ever is in trouble and possibly moving and amazingly, behind closed doors, they win the lottery to draft the most anticipated player since the owner of that team. Makes you wonder.
Winnipeg drafting Jimmy Mann in '79.
the first year san jose came into the league, instead of the expansion getting the first overall it was given to quebec (lindros). i think it may have been the first year they ever did that. still not 100% sure but i think it had something to do with gund (owner of the sharks) making a deal with the league or something...maybe u can dig up old threads in the sharks forum.
In the 1974 draft Punch Imlach selected Taro Tsujimoto of the Tokyo Katanas using 183rd pick overall. Everyone thought that the Sabres had uncovered a new talent from Japan. So who was this new unknown future superstar? There's two stories on this part of the pick. The first states Imlach picked the name out of the phone book, the second that Tsujimoto was a waiter in a Japanese restaurant that Seymour Knox III had visited the night before. And "Katana" was the Japanese word for a sabre. Regardless of how the name was picked, the pick itself turned out to be a joke played on the other GM's by Imlach. Weeks later Imlach admitted as much and pick was declared null and void by the NHL.
Not totally sure if this one was controversial, but it was certainly one of the most provocative:
http://www.sabresfans.com/history/DraftPicks.asp
Taro Tsujimoto, obvious one
Jiri Dudacek, Alex Mogilny, for iron curtain purposes
Jaromir Jagr, military purposes
Pavel Bure, for the RSL papers / igor larionov thing
Perreault, for the confusing coinflip
Ovechkin.. the 9th rounder Keenan used in 2004 to try to draft him
Any more?
The very first name put forward in this thread, how does someone miss something like that?
I thought the same thing as well. A franchise owned by one of the best players ever is in trouble and possibly moving and amazingly, behind closed doors, they win the lottery to draft the most anticipated player since the owner of that team. Makes you wonder.
DiPietro. First goalie to ever go #1. The next two picks: Heatley, and Gaborik. Other notables in that draft - Lundqvist going in the 7th round, Liles in the 4th round, and Visnovsky (who was 24) in the 4th.
http://www.post-gazette.com/penguins/20030629nhlnot0629p5.aspFlorida General Manager Rick Dudley attempted in four different rounds to draft Ovechkin, arguing that, if leap-year dates were taken out of the equation, Ovechkin actually would turn 18 four days before his recognized birthday and thus have been eligible for 2003. The NHL rejected the Panthers all four times, but the league did comply with Florida's request to make the final one in writing. This way, if it is ruled that the Panthers were in the right, they could justify a claim on Ovechkin.
Dudley said team management hatched the idea a month ago, and he acknowledged its limited chance at success.
"It's a long shot," he said. "But, if it's a viable long shot, we would be a very happy crew because he's a special player."
Dipietro wasn't the first goalie to go first overall.
Yes he was.
First thing that came to my mind when I saw the thread title.
Also, the 2003 draft when Atlanta passed over Phaneuf to draft Braydon Coburn. The analysts were all surprised, and rightly so by the looks of things right now.
In those days in Russia it was pretty much "what do you want the documents to say". No problem if cost was no object.That Bure story is crazy, somehow I've never heard that before. It would be interesting to see those "discovered" game rosters. Normally a roster is arranged numerically or alphabetically. I highly doubt they're genuine.