Can I retroactive the Bonnies through the modern draft era? (Starting 1980, say).
1980 - Doug Wickenheiser (#1, MTL) (not a total bust... but #1?)
1981 - Doug Smith (#2, LA)
1982 - Gord Kluzak (#1, BOS) (not his fault tho' -- Yaremchuk, Trottier #7,8 otherwise)
1983 - Andrew McBain (#8, WAS)
1984 - Craig Redmond (#6, LA)
1985 - Jim Sandlak (#4, VAN)
1986 - Neil Brady (#3, NJ)
1987 - Wayne McBean (#4, LA)
1988 - Darrin Shannon (#4, PIT), Daniel Dore (#5, QUE)
1989 - Dave Chyzowski (#2, NYI)
(aside: to my mind, there is a bit of a quantum leap forward in the quality of drafting starting in the 90's, esp. 1993 onwards, compared to earlier years when you could find half or more of 1st rounders busting or just being cup-of-coffee players... partly due to the European influence, and partly due to smarter management teams putting more emphasis on scouting).
1990 - Scott Scissons (#6, NYI)
1991 - Pat Falloon (#2, SJ) (but for pure bust - Alek Stojanov #7, VAN)
1992 - Todd Warriner (#4, QUE)
1993 - Jesper Mattsson (#18, CAL) (you might want Daigle #1...)
1994 - Bonsignore (#4, EDM)
1995 - Steve Kelly (#6, EDM), Terry Ryan (#8, MTL)
1996 - Alexandre Volchkov (#4, EDM)
1997 - Daniel Tkachuk (#6, CAL)
from 1998 onwards, it's more like predicting who will be the busts, per the poster...
1998 - Jeff Heerema (#11, CAR) Hon.Mention: Rupp, Henrich, Desrochers, Chouinards
1999 - Denis Shvidki (#12, FLO - the surest bet for busthood)... ample room for Connolly, Finley, Beech, Pyatt, even Lundmark to be top-10 busts
2000 - Nikita Alexeev (#8, TB) - HM: Krahn, Hainsey, Kriukov
2001 - Stan Chistov (#5, ANA) - I hate to say it, because I picked him at the time, tho' I still think he'll be decent, maybe not just the star I envisaged. HM: Umberger more likely for pure busthood, Jens Karlsson also
2002 - Taticek (#9, FLA)
2003 - Vanek (#5, BUF), HM: Jessiman
2004 - Ovechkin (#1, PIT) (kidding!
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