A look at past drafts
Ryan Ma
2008-06-10
With the 2008 NHL entry draft just a few weeks away we can look back to the past to see which areas of past NHL entry drafts were typically strong and you’ll be certainly be surprised to see which areas have been shockingly weak.
Below is a list of players drafted according to draft position since the 1993 NHL entry draft along with some of my picks as to who were the steals of the drafts.
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1st Overall 93- Alexander Daigle 94- Ed Jovanovski 95- Bryan Berard 96- Chris Philips 97- Joe Thornton 98- Vinny Lecavalier 99- Pat Stefan 00- Rick DiPietro 01- Ilya Kovalchuk 02- Rick Nash 03- M.A. Fleury 04- Alex Ovechkin 05- Sidney Crosby 06- Erik Johnson 07- Patrick Kane |
2nd Overall 93- Chris Pronger 94- Oleg Tverdovsky 95- Wade Redden 96- Andrei Zyuzin 97- Patrick Marleau 98- David Legwand 99- Daniel Sedin 00- Dany Heatley 01- Jason Spezza 02- Kari Lehtonen 03- Eric Staal 04- Evgeni Malkin 05- Bobby Ryan 06- Jordan Staal 07- James VanRiemsdyk |
3rd Overall 93- Chris Gratton 94- Radek Bonk 95- Aki Berg 96- J.P. Dumont < |