HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The 2009 Draft

[El Travo]

1st Round, 3rd Overall: Matt Duchene

2nd Round, 33rd Overall: Ryan O'Reilly

3rd Round, 64th Overall: Tyson Barrie

Probably one of our best drafts overall, and now none of them are on the team a decade later. Say something nice about them.

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[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Thanks for the assets you jerks!

Seriously though, I thought that draft (Stefan Elliott included) was the start of something special. Sad to see them gone.

 

[McMetal]

JT Compher
Nikita Zadorov
AJ Greer
Denis Smirnov
Samuel Girard
Shane Bowers
Vladislav Kamenev
Bowen Byram
Matthew Stienburg
Nazem Kadri
Calle Rosen

All assets in the system (currently) thanks to this draft. Wild to think about.

 

[Avsboy]

JT Compher
Nikita Zadorov
AJ Greer
Denis Smirnov
Samuel Girard
Shane Bowers
Vladislav Kamenev
Bowen Byram
Matthew Stienburg
Nazem Kadri
Calle Rosen

All assets in the system (currently) thanks to this draft. Wild to think about.

Asset. Management.

except I miss RoR

 

[Boulder Avalanche]

Asset. Management.

except I miss RoR

Hindsight is 20/20 but we should have overpaid O’Reilly...

 

[Hasbro]

Probably the start of our contentious relationship with Leaf Nation here when Brian Burke shot his mouth off about trading into the top 3. Leaf's fans went right along with his ego trip.

The Athletic had a retrospective on Burke's great fail.

Getting shutout trying to trade up and then the Kessel trade was fitting comeuppance for that blowhard.

 

[arun]

Goodbyeson Barrie..

 

[BrickNHL]

Love you forever Tyson

 

[Pokecheque]

That was an exciting era, too bad they just never capitalized on it. They got good value in return for it though.

The downside is that massive haul gave Rick Pracey a ton of job security he definitely did not deserve.

 

[MarkT]

Of the three I miss O'Reilly the most. I really wish they had found a way to work and signed him long-term to be our 2C. The other two, though great in their way, are flawed players. O'Reilly is nearly perfect at what he does and only seems to falter when he's expected to be something he's not.

I love Compher and Zadorov, but they haven't yet managed to fill the O'Reilly-shaped hole in my heart.

 

[Richard88]

JT Compher
Nikita Zadorov
AJ Greer
Denis Smirnov
Samuel Girard
Shane Bowers
Vladislav Kamenev
Bowen Byram
Matthew Stienburg
Nazem Kadri
Calle Rosen

All assets in the system (currently) thanks to this draft. Wild to think about.

Don't forget the TOR 2020 3rd from the Barrie trade. The gift that keeps on giving...

 

[arun]

JT Compher
Nikita Zadorov
AJ Greer
Denis Smirnov
Samuel Girard
Shane Bowers
Vladislav Kamenev
Bowen Byram
Matthew Stienburg
Nazem Kadri
Calle Rosen

All assets in the system (currently) thanks to this draft. Wild to think about.

Thats nuts. I mean, fking nuts.

 

[klozge]

Well, we still can remember the 2009 draft fondly.

 

[missionAvs]

Super sad seeing the last of these big 3 gone. Obviously ROR is the big fish here but the Barrie trade hurts the most IMO. Biggest team guy here.

 

[Hasbro]

Don't forget the TOR 2020 3rd from the Barrie trade. The gift that keeps on giving...

I’m kind of using that for Kerfoot.

 

[Hasbro]

 

[El Travo]

This really hammers home the sentiment that nothing gold ever stays the same. These were all very good players when they left us and I think that makes it hurt even more. It makes me want to appreciate the guys we have even more while they are still with us. One day we'll be saying goodbye to our core guys. I just hope the memories tied to them are more successful ones than the ones related to the 2009 draft.

 

[Frobbo]

This kind of hammers home the options one can obtain if you do a good job of drafting. Duncan Siemans, Connor Bleakley drafts not so much.

 

[famicommander]

Hindsight is 20/20 but we should have overpaid O’Reilly...

What really hurt was losing both O'Reilly and Stastny. If they could have kept just one of them (preferably the younger O'Reilly, of course, but even Stazz) it would be huge right now.

 

[John Mandalorian]

This kind of hammers home the options one can obtain if you do a good job of drafting. Duncan Siemans, Connor Bleakley drafts not so much.

Some drafts are also simply more bereft of talent...and the problem is hype doesn't allow people to accept it for what it is even years later.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

This is the draft that bought Pracey way too many years as our head scout and we paid heavily for it.

Would be nice to still have ROR and Barrie but Newport gonna Newport.

I think we've purged our organization of that cancer now at least.