thestonedkoala
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Personally I look at Johansson. He was drafted higher than he should have and is one of only two players that the Wild did not sign in the first round.It's kind of weird, a few of the names are pretty gross (Thelen, Sheppard, Gillies, Phillips), but you actually have to go down the list pretty far to find the player that you'd rather have that actually might've been a bit of a franchise changer.
I'll go with Pouliot, not because he is the worst player on that list (he isn't) but because he was the highest pick of the bad names, and because Carey Price was a single pick later. Goalies in the first round notwithstanding, it would've solved any goalie issue we had from then until his big contract kicked in. Kopitar at #11 is probably closer to our pick than a lot of the other years as well.
Personally I look at Johansson. He was drafted higher than he should have and is one of only two players that the Wild did not sign in the first round.
A lot of them haven't made it to the NHL yet.Yeah, but we're probably going to get a 2nd rounder out if it, and how many game-changers were taken after him. I see nary a one.
Precisely why I'm not freaking out about them, at this point.A lot of them haven't made it to the NHL yet.
Romanov would have been nice; it would have also shored up depth somewhere else.
He scutteled his career by going psycho and getting kicked out of school at Michigan State actually. tried turning pro but ended up in the ECHL as a failure. No injuries involved.Someone correct me if I'm wrong, Thelen was supposed to be a decent pick at the time, he had a good freshman year at Michigan St., and then injuries derailed his pro career.
Wasn't Cuma's career over before it started due to injuries?Tyler Cumba. Ah, memories.
Wasn't Cuma's career over before it started due to injuries?
He scutteled his career by going psycho and getting kicked out of school at Michigan State actually. tried turning pro but ended up in the ECHL as a failure. No injuries involved.
Rare miss by the Ducks.. but speaking of that draft, how about the Habs taking David Fischer over Claude Giroux? You can see why they're mad up in Québec all the time.Mark Mitera was aweful
Oh men completely miss it hahaha it is a Wild thread... In my mind Thelen and Mitera is so comparable...Rare miss by the Ducks.. but speaking of that draft, how about the Habs taking David Fischer over Claude Giroux? You can see why they're mad up in Québec all the time.
Looking back, the Wild really didn't miss massively much. For every bust, there's usually a pick or two after that is just as bad.
Could honestly argue for Kunin just because he represents the same flawed thought process (high floor but limited ceiling, "character guy") that led to underwhelming picks like Pouliot.
Philips still bugs me, because so many warning signs were there. Just avoidable errors.
But anyhow Kaprizov and Boldy and Brodin were good picks. Time to move on probably.
I remember shouting at my screen that we needed to take a chance on one of Saad, Rakell or Rattie. Obviously, two of those worked out better than the other, but all three were better than Phillips. Lesson of that draft: don't draft players in the 1st round that can't skate.Oh men completely miss it hahaha it is a Wild thread... In my mind Thelen and Mitera is so comparable...
The Habs draft so porely for 20 year hence the 2007 draft that Fischer get lost in the mix.
But indeed the Wild always seems to get it right at the draft. The Pouliot pick... i mean Montreal would have draft him and would have never slide out of the top 10, it wasn't just meant to be I guess
The Phillips pick was a bad one but he just had a 95p season with a good team and they probably thought he was at least a good bottom 6 that would stick for a while. They probably should have gone with Brandon Saad with that pick at the time because Im not sure a lot of people would have thought Rakell would carve up this kind of career