Who is best F the Rangers have drafted since Alex Kovalev?

[Crease]

The Rangers drafted Alex Kovalev 15th overall in the 1991 draft. Since then, who is the best forward the Rangers have drafted?

For reference:

Rangers Draft History

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[FLYLine27*]

1) Alexei Cherepanov (rip)
2) Callahan
3) Hollweg

edit - Forgot about Savard and Step. Just quickly ran through the list.

Answer is Savard.

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

Savard or Stepan probably

 

[SA16]

Seems fairly clearly Savard?

 

[Chaels Arms]

Stepan.

 

[Crease]

Yeah it's gotta be Savard right? And that was 1995.

Savard hung around for parts of two seasons before being shipped to Calgary along with the 11th overall pick for Hlavac (the Czech Mates!) and the 9th overall pick (eventually Lundmark, who ironically spent most of his career with Calgary too).

Since then, we're talking Stepan, Callahan, and Dubinsky as far as guys with proven results. I'm...underwhelmed.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

1) Alexei Cherepanov (rip)
2) Callahan
3) Hollweg

Callahan?


Marchant, Stepan, Dubinsky, Savard were/are all better.

 

[FLYLine27*]

Yeah it's gotta be Savard right? And that was 1995.

After that, we're talking Stepan, Callahan, and Dubinsky as far as guys with proven results. I'm...underwhelmed.

yea..that's pretty eye opening and sad

 

[FLYLine27*]

Callahan?


Marchant, Stepan, Dubinsky, Savard were/are all better.

I forgot Savard and Step.

Cally > Dubi and Marchant though.

I know people have a bad taste in their mouth from him, but his prime years and when he was a kid, he was a complete leader and beast for us on the ice.

 

[Lion Hound]

Has to be Savard and he probably would have had another 4 or 5 seasons if he didn't have the concussion issues.

Savard
Stepan
Callahan
Kreider
Dubinsky
Hagelin

 

[Lion Hound]

98 Draft, 131st overall : Tomas Kloucek

Not a forward, but the draft history brough back a lot of memories. Kloucek had a very short career due to bad knees but I have never seen a guy hit like he did. Absolutely crushed people. Was such a beast and he was pretty good too but...Damn knees!

 

[Crease]

Yeah, re Kloucek, the team has been just brutal defensively for so long that when he came along I thought we got our Scott Stevens. He hit so hard, he made Mike Sauer look like Tom Poti by comparison.

 

[Mac n Gs]

Still find it amazing that no Glen Sather drafted forward has ever scored 60+ points for the Rangers.

 

[jay from jersey]

it's

cherepanov without a doubt. top 5 talent that was stolen with the 17th due to russian factor.RIP he was taken from us too early. god bless him where ever he is. he was holding records with names such as bure ovechkin malkin in KHL and proving he was a stud against men at 18-19 years old. siberian express was a bad ass nickname too. i still remember the day he passed away, i was floored. amonte, weight, stephan all solid. hope the butcher of broadway can be the next best one

 

[jay from jersey]

nice

Has to be Savard and he probably would have had another 4 or 5 seasons if he didn't have the concussion issues.

Savard
Stepan
Callahan
Kreider
Dubinsky
Hagelin

nice. savard is a good one that flies under the radar. ah what could have been

 

[NickyFotiu]

I think we have only drafted around 5 forwards in the first round since Neil Smith.

 

[silverfish]

JT Miller

 

[Draft Guru]

The Rangers didn't draft a 20 goal scorer in the first round between Niklas Sundstrom (1993) and Chris Kreider (2009). Wasn't until 2015 that Kreider hit 20 goals.

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

JT Miller

lol

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Alexei Cherepanov (RIP)

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

Alexi would've been a force, wish we could've seen him play

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

Cherepanov would have been a superstar.

God rest his soul

 

[ecemleafs]

How could u possibly say cherepanov when he played less than 100 career pro games and none in the nhl...

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he was a better prospect than any of these recent Russian players like Tarasenko, Kuznetsov, Kucherov, Panarin, Buch, Kaprizov.

Paging Caser, Kshahdoo, Atas, any other Russian posters for help!

 

[bl02]

98 Draft, 131st overall : Tomas Kloucek

Not a forward, but the draft history brough back a lot of memories. Kloucek had a very short career due to bad knees but I have never seen a guy hit like he did. Absolutely crushed people. Was such a beast and he was pretty good too but...Damn knees!

still depressed losing him to that knee injury. guy was a freight train when he hit people.