[B/R] Vous n’avez pas besoin d’être un choix de premier tour pour devenir une vedette
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KirbyAxel4569
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[B/R] Vous n’avez pas besoin d’être un choix de premier tour pour devenir une vedette
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KirbyAxel4569
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Pavel bure round 6 #113 to the nucks🤌🏻
Aho and slavin
Johnny Gaudreau
Jesper, thundercock, JBITBPITNHL, 6th rnd pick, Bratt
TBPITNHL Jesper Bratt, 6th round 2016
Literally our whole 2008 cup team lol
Joe Pavelski in the 7th round #205 in ’03.
I’ll also toss in George Parros in the 8th round back in ’99 cuz I still laugh when I remember we drafted the guy.
Hasek is a better player than any listed and was picked 199th. Almost certainly the best late pick ever in any sport that has a draft, actually, since he’s the best at his position ever and if we were to count goalies towards the top 5 players of all time he’d be in that top 5 for hockey players.
Half the people used as examples have a cup with us lol
Point, Cirelli, Palat, so far.
Jake Guentzel
Daniel Alfredsson, 6th round and 133rd overall.
Patrice Bergeron 45th
Datsyuk was 171st overall.
I think you made a mistake with Pavel Datsyuk. It doesn’t seem possible that he would be a 6th round pick but only 71st overall, that would suggest only 12-14 picks per round.
Henrik Lundqvist, 8th round pick, #205 overall in the 2000 draft.
Dustin Byfuglien – 245th overall. He was a beauty.
Kirill Kaprizov (Round 5, 135 overall)
Marty St Louis was undrafted.
Hyman went 123rd or something, gem of a player and a person
Patrik Hornqvist. Last overall pick 2005. Solid 20+ goals per season type forward in his prime. Key ingredient on the back to back Penguins Cups. Scored Cup winning goal in 2017 at his former team arena. Retired today.
Luc Robitaille – Drafted in the 9th round, 171st overall in 1984.
Went on to a World Cup gold, World Championship Gold, Rookie of the Year for 1987, 8 All-Star appearances and a Cup in 2002. Oh, and a Hall of Famer in 2009.
Not bad for a small French kid who supposedly couldn’t skate.
Wes McCauley was drafted by Detroit in the 8th round in 1990, and he has had a terrific NHL career.
Datsyuk played with a lot of legendary players that were selected deep in the draft. Detroit really knew how to scout.
If only Gallagher hadn’t had such bad luck with hand injuries, he’d be in this conversation. 5th round pick in 2010, was a key player for a number of years and remains a leader nowadays.
That and I have a soft spot for him, not sure why
Pavelski
Mr. Irrelevant Patric Hornqvist
Kipper
Wayne Gretzky. Never drafted.
I heard Ottawa almost fucked up and waived Stone but one of their big scouts threatened to leave if they did that and they gave Stone more time. Of course, that was a long time ago, and I may be forgetting the actual event.
These guys didn’t even get drafted.
Ed Belfour,
Curtis Joseph,
Adam Oates
I think all three are in the HOF.
Vladimir Konstantinov 11th round 221st overall in 1989
Sergei Fedorov 4th round 71st overall in 1989
Ryan Miller was drafted 138th overall (5th round) in 1999
Probably Ovechkin in the 7th by the panthers
Evgeni Nabokov – 219th overall, 9th round pick. Goes on to lead the Sharks to many good runs and gets 353 career wins with a . 911 save %. Won the Calder in 2002 and was a Vezina finalist in 2008.
Not bad for a 9th round flier because the Sharks knew his dad was a great goalie for the Russian Red Army teams back in the day.
Pekke Rinne, 258th overall in 2004, Kimmo Timonen, 250th overall in 93 draft
I remember hearing a story after Zetterberg was drafted, he looked at his agent and said, « Are they drafting alphabetically now? »
Peter Bondra was drafted 8th round (156th overall).
Tomas Kaberle – 204th overall in the 8th round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs
The Robitaille one always blows my fucking mind.
1989: Vladimir Konstantinov (Rd. 11 Pick 221)
#THEY DONT HAVE AN 11TH ROUND ANYMORE
Kris Draper.
Now Now, look. **Hear me out.**
Sure he was a 62nd overall pick.
But he wasn’t a Red Wings pick. He was picked by the Jets.
We did however trade for him. He cost us 1 dollar. 1.
The man went on to play over a 1000 games in a Red Wings uniform. Was instrumental in faceoffs and on the grind line and won 4 Stanley Cups and his injury after a cowardly hit by a Turtle led to one of the greatest rivalries ever in the game of Hockey.
Andrei Markov was drafted in the 6th round, 162nd overall, AS A CENTER!
He somehow ended up being the best D on the Habs for over 15 years. He pretty much landed Sheldon Sourray and Mike Komisarek big contracts after leaving the Habs, which neither of them came anywhere close to living up to.
Nick Lidstrom in the 3rd round is the best steal of all time because he wasn’t a shot in the dark. At the time, European 18 year olds could only be taken in the first 3 rounds. In the 3rd round of the 1989 draft, one of Detroit’s European scouts (I think Hakkan Andersson, but I’m not sure) demanded we take Lidstrom because he was confident he was about to have a breakout season and would be a top prospect for the next draft if we let him slip. Nobody really knew who he was, but the Wings took him. He took a big leap the next season and eventually became the franchise defenseman that we all know and love him as.
Redwings used to the masters of finding hidden talent. Lidstrom, Datsyuk, Konstantinov, Fedorov, the list goes on.. Haakan Anderson ought to have his name in the rafters.