@Habsfan18 or any of the other THN collectors, i swear ashley buckberger was once considered in the top five of the stacked 1993 draft. it would have been in a little box tucked into an article about the '92 draft, but my memory is it was like daigle, rob niedermayer, gratton, pronger, and ashley buckberger as their top five going into the draft year.
if this tickles anyone else's fancy, would love to know if i've been misremembering this for the last almost thirty years.
i also have no idea what happened to buckberger as a prospect but he ended up going near the end of the second round, 49th overall, to quebec. there were very good prospects available well into the second round, langenbrunner, brendan morrison, bryan mccabe, niinimaa, pandolfo, but the quality fell off a cliff in the middle of the round, with the last guy that in a normal draft year would likely have been a first rounder being probably kevin weekes at #41.