Ok, this is my final draft guide until 2015. u/TylerBlozak contacted me to say he has 2012-2014, so maybe they’ll step up over the next few days to keep the nostalgia going.
Duncan Seimens should appeal to the dozen of you who enjoyed Semen Varlamov the other day.
Dougie Hamilton looks like he’ll eat our souls… while at a museum or something.
My major memory here is how wrong I was about most of the guys I liked. – I thought Cristopher was the better Gibson. Thought Musil and Bartschi were going to be better than they turned out as well. Had no doubt Armia was going to be a cromulant top 6 wing for the Sabres to start building around… I had so many bad takes for this draft. I blame the new baby… who’s now 13.
Mike Paliotta mentioned! He was captain my first year at UVM.
Kucherov at 95 or Phillips at 9, which has aged worse haha. Kucherov is a surefire HOFer, Phillips….didn’t even get a second contract and has since played in the German third tier, the Swedish second tier, Hungary, Scotland, England, Poland, and Slovakia
I was so excited when the Blues got Rattie and Jaskin. :/
I still remember when RNH’s vision was being compared to Gretzkys in this draft. I thought it was ridiculous then and even more ridiculous now.
Trocheck looks like he’s posing for the poster of a quirky 90s comedy.
Both Mika and Trochek pics made me laugh out loud and uncontrollably
Danault looks like he’s rocking Phil Esposito’s 1970 haircut
Rocco Grimaldi’s Nashville run was so damn fun. The dude HUSTLES and is so exciting to watch but damn it John Hynes only cared that he was short and pretty much iced his career as soon as he showed up. He wouldn’t have been like a superstar by any stretch but I wish he could’ve been given a longer chance under a coach who values offense
It’s easy to see why Joel Armia was drafted so high. On paper, he is the total package. There are games, even as recently as last season, where he shows glimpses of a Hart trophy caliber player, no exaggeration. But for some reason he just can’t put it all together.
Crazy how many players who were ranked outside the first round made massive jumps. Scheifele especially. And it turned out to be a great pick
Oh Captain my Captain! ❤️
Kucherov at 95….
Funny that Saad slid all the way to 43rd and in a redraft probably would go close to where he was originally projected
Imagine if edmonton had gotten kucherov over rnh and vasilevsky over yakupov the next year
I wonder how it would’ve affected RNH if he stayed in junior another year
Weird to see some of them without beards. Only one who never aged is RNH
John Gibson and J.T. Miller look like they were moonlighting as members of an emo/pop-punk band
Damn I remember getting this exact draft guide when it first came out, still probably have it back at my parents somewhere… this makes me feel old as hell
JT Miller looks like Kevin Bacon if he tried to play a teenager in a movie
Thanks for posting all these. Super interesting looking back.
Who’d have thought the best player in the class was ranked 95? The 2nd(?) best player drafted at 104 and not even on the list (Gaudreau).
Klefbom 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Can’t believe the Rangers reached for a pick and it turned out good only for us to do the typical NY thing and trade the dude.
This was a pretty damn stellar draft class. Lot of these guys had or have had long careers in the league and there is a bonafide HOFer in this class not in the top 60.
Damn all these post make me remember how bad we have been at drafting except for like 2 or 3 years in the last 20 years.
Even when we got some good pick like sergachev and McDonagh we traded them for flops…
Klefbom looks like my twelve year old nephew in that pic. I hope retirement is relatively pain free.
Duncan Siemens my GOAT
Found it funny when they called oleksiak the poor man’s Tyler Myers
This was the first draft I closely followed. Oilers fans were told they were getting Pavel Datsyuk with RNH, it did not happen, still a great player.
Kucherov here AINEC, he’s all time. I have a memory of someone on TSN saying something to the effect of “the best prospect in the world is Nikita Kucherov but he’s not gonna get picked in the first round.” Have never been able to find a clip.
Zibby, Miller, Scheifele, Trochek, Danault, Couturier, RNH; this draft was loaded with good centres in hindsight. Some other guys initially projected better and even started to trend towards their ceilings before tapering off.
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Siemens Avalanche.
Kucherov “inconsistent”.
Ok, this is my final draft guide until 2015. u/TylerBlozak contacted me to say he has 2012-2014, so maybe they’ll step up over the next few days to keep the nostalgia going.
Duncan Seimens should appeal to the dozen of you who enjoyed Semen Varlamov the other day.
Dougie Hamilton looks like he’ll eat our souls… while at a museum or something.
My major memory here is how wrong I was about most of the guys I liked. – I thought Cristopher was the better Gibson. Thought Musil and Bartschi were going to be better than they turned out as well. Had no doubt Armia was going to be a cromulant top 6 wing for the Sabres to start building around… I had so many bad takes for this draft. I blame the new baby… who’s now 13.
Mike Paliotta mentioned! He was captain my first year at UVM.
Kucherov at 95 or Phillips at 9, which has aged worse haha. Kucherov is a surefire HOFer, Phillips….didn’t even get a second contract and has since played in the German third tier, the Swedish second tier, Hungary, Scotland, England, Poland, and Slovakia
I was so excited when the Blues got Rattie and Jaskin. :/
I still remember when RNH’s vision was being compared to Gretzkys in this draft. I thought it was ridiculous then and even more ridiculous now.
Trocheck looks like he’s posing for the poster of a quirky 90s comedy.
Both Mika and Trochek pics made me laugh out loud and uncontrollably
Danault looks like he’s rocking Phil Esposito’s 1970 haircut
Rocco Grimaldi’s Nashville run was so damn fun. The dude HUSTLES and is so exciting to watch but damn it John Hynes only cared that he was short and pretty much iced his career as soon as he showed up. He wouldn’t have been like a superstar by any stretch but I wish he could’ve been given a longer chance under a coach who values offense
It’s easy to see why Joel Armia was drafted so high. On paper, he is the total package. There are games, even as recently as last season, where he shows glimpses of a Hart trophy caliber player, no exaggeration. But for some reason he just can’t put it all together.
Crazy how many players who were ranked outside the first round made massive jumps. Scheifele especially. And it turned out to be a great pick
Oh Captain my Captain! ❤️
Kucherov at 95….
Funny that Saad slid all the way to 43rd and in a redraft probably would go close to where he was originally projected
Imagine if edmonton had gotten kucherov over rnh and vasilevsky over yakupov the next year
I wonder how it would’ve affected RNH if he stayed in junior another year
Weird to see some of them without beards. Only one who never aged is RNH
John Gibson and J.T. Miller look like they were moonlighting as members of an emo/pop-punk band
Damn I remember getting this exact draft guide when it first came out, still probably have it back at my parents somewhere… this makes me feel old as hell
JT Miller looks like Kevin Bacon if he tried to play a teenager in a movie
Thanks for posting all these. Super interesting looking back.
Who’d have thought the best player in the class was ranked 95? The 2nd(?) best player drafted at 104 and not even on the list (Gaudreau).
Klefbom 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Can’t believe the Rangers reached for a pick and it turned out good only for us to do the typical NY thing and trade the dude.
This was a pretty damn stellar draft class. Lot of these guys had or have had long careers in the league and there is a bonafide HOFer in this class not in the top 60.
Damn all these post make me remember how bad we have been at drafting except for like 2 or 3 years in the last 20 years.
Even when we got some good pick like sergachev and McDonagh we traded them for flops…
Klefbom looks like my twelve year old nephew in that pic. I hope retirement is relatively pain free.
Duncan Siemens my GOAT
Found it funny when they called oleksiak the poor man’s Tyler Myers
This was the first draft I closely followed. Oilers fans were told they were getting Pavel Datsyuk with RNH, it did not happen, still a great player.
Kucherov here AINEC, he’s all time. I have a memory of someone on TSN saying something to the effect of “the best prospect in the world is Nikita Kucherov but he’s not gonna get picked in the first round.” Have never been able to find a clip.
Zibby, Miller, Scheifele, Trochek, Danault, Couturier, RNH; this draft was loaded with good centres in hindsight. Some other guys initially projected better and even started to trend towards their ceilings before tapering off.
Obligatory fuck Reid boucher