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Old February 28th, 2008, 02:20 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by gogogo View Post
The Good
2000-Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers (7th round, 205th overall)
1999-Henrik Zetterberg, Detroit Red Wings (7th round, 210th overall)
1998-Pavel Datsyuk, Detroit Red Wings (6th round, 171st overall)
1996-Tomas Kaberle, Toronto Maple Leafs (8th round, 204th overall)
1995-Miikka Kiprusoff, San Jose Sharks (5th round, 116th overall)
1994-Daniel Alfredsson, Ottawa Senators (6th round, 133rd overall)
1994-Tomas Holmström, Detroit Red Wings (10th round, 257 overall)
1993-Pavol Demitra, Ottawa Senators (9th round, 227th overall)
1992-Nikolai Khabibulin, Winnipeg Jets (9th round, 204th overall)
1990-Peter Bondra, Washington Capitals (8th round, 156th overall)
1989-Pavel Bure, Vancouver Canucks (6th round, 113th overall)
1987-Theoren Fleury, Calgary Flames (8th round, 166th overall)
1984-Luc Robitaille, Los Angeles Kings (9th round, 171st overall)
The Bad
2000-Alexei Smirnov, Anaheim Ducks (12th overall)
1999-Patrick Stefan, Atlanta Thrashers (1st overall)
1999-Pavel Brendl, New York Rangers (4th overall)
1999-Brian Finley. Nashville Predators (6th overall)
1999-Luca Cereda . Toronto Maple Leafs (24th overall)
1997-Daniel Tkaczuk, Calgary Flames (6th overall)
1996-Alexandre Volchkov, Washington Capitals (4th overall)
1995-Aki Berg, Los Angeles Kings (3rd overall)
1994-Jason Bonsignore, Edmonton Oilers (4th overall)
1993-Alexandre Daigle, Ottawa Senators (1st overall)
1992-Ryan Sittler, Philadelphia Flyers (7th overall)
1991-Pat Falloon, San Jose Sharks (2nd overall)
and the
STAMMMMKOS

The one that sticks out in my head is Pat Faloon. I traded a Bernie Nichols card for a Pat Faloon Rookie card long ago. What a fool I am.
You can fight this argument both ways. The truth of the matter is that teams have a better chance of an impact player in the first round, The higher the pick the more likely the pick will be an impact player. I'm not saying that there aren't flops I'm just saying that chances are that the higher the pick the more likely to get a player that will have an NHL career.

It's also true that teams can pick up late round impact players and that is more of a crap shoot.

I did a study a couple of years ago on the impact a player has (# of games played) on where they were picked in the draft. You can draw your own conclusions.

Click on the attachment below.
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