Anaheim Ducks' 2011 Draft

[MMC]

With Andy Welinski making his NHL debut tonight, all of our picks in this draft have played in an NHL game. They are:

Rickard Rakell (our 1LW)
John Gibson (starting goaltender)
William Karlsson (currently Vegas's 1C)
Joseph Cramarossa (played in the NHL with us last season, claimed by Vancouver, now apart of the Flames' AHL team)
Andy Welinski (making his debut tonight, hopefully will be a bottom pairing defenseman)
Max Friberg (played a few games with us, got traded to Montreal for Tokarski but never played there, now in the SHL)
Josh Manson (excellent Top 4D)

How many teams have had this before?

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[LeafChief]

With Andy Welinski making his NHL debut tonight, all of our picks in this draft have played in an NHL game. They are:

Rickard Rakell (our 1LW)
John Gibson (starting goaltender)
William Karlsson (currently Vegas's 1C)
Joseph Cramarossa (played in the NHL with us last season, claimed by Vancouver, now apart of the Flames' AHL team)
Andy Welinski (making his debut tonight, hopefully will be a bottom pairing defenseman)
Max Friberg (played a few games with us, got traded to Montreal for Tokarski but never played there, now in the SHL)
Josh Manson (excellent Top 4D)

How many teams have had this before?

Kudos to the Ducks scouting staff. That's super impressive.

The Leafs almost did it in 2006 but not with the high end talent of Rakell and Gibson.

Jiri Tlusty - 446 GP
Nikolai Kulemin - 669 GP
James Reimer - 274 GP
Korbinian Holzer - 129 GP
Viktor Stalberg - 488 GP
Tyler Ruegsegger - 0 GP (the only one they missed on)
Leo Komarov - 284 GP

 

[Ainec]

off the top of my head only

Blues are as good at drafting

 

[Beautvillier]

2009 islanders
Tavares - 617 GP
de Haan - 301 GP
Koskinen - 4 GP
Nilsson - 88 GP
Cizikas - 375 GP
Klementyev - 1 GP
Lee - 291 GP

 

[WTFMAN99]

Super impressive to have that. Getting even 2 impact players in a draft is a home run for any organization.

 

[MMC]

2009 islanders
Tavares - 617 GP
de Haan - 301 GP
Koskinen - 4 GP
Nilsson - 88 GP
Cizikas - 375 GP
Klementyev - 1 GP
Lee - 291 GP

Wow, another great draft.

 

[duxfan1101]

Not only have they all played in the NHL, they all played their first game with Anaheim. I think that's way more rare.

 

[Blue Line Turnover]

Hats off to Anaheim's drafting ability; their AHL development system is top notch, as well.

 

[JurassicTunga]

I believe the Flames 2011 draft have all played in the NHL as well. 5 players instead of 7 though.

Sven Baertschi
Markus Granlund
Tyler Wotherspoon
Johnny Gaudreau
Laurent Brossoit

4/5 in the NHL right now(Wotherspoon with the Heat in the AHL at the moment)

 

[The Macho King]

With Andy Welinski making his NHL debut tonight, all of our picks in this draft have played in an NHL game. They are:

Rickard Rakell (our 1LW)
John Gibson (starting goaltender)
William Karlsson (currently Vegas's 1C)
Joseph Cramarossa (played in the NHL with us last season, claimed by Vancouver, now apart of the Flames' AHL team)
Andy Welinski (making his debut tonight, hopefully will be a bottom pairing defenseman)
Max Friberg (played a few games with us, got traded to Montreal for Tokarski but never played there, now in the SHL)
Josh Manson (excellent Top 4D)

How many teams have had this before?

Tampa didn't have many picks, but in 2011 we have:

1st - Vladislav Namestnikov (our 1LW)
2nd - Nikita Kucherov (our 1RW and top 5 winger in the league easily)
7th - Ondrej Palat (only reason he isn't our 1LW is because Namestnikov is there - one of the best two-way wingers in the league)

We filled it out with Nikita Nesterov in the fifth (played over a hundred games for us before we traded him), Adam Wilcox in the sixth who never panned out for us, and Matthew Peca in the 7th who is probably the first call up if we need a C from Syracuse.

 

[Beautvillier]

Not only have they all played in the NHL, they all played their first game with Anaheim. I think that's way more rare.

same case with the ‘09 isles

 

[Ducks in a row]

With Andy Welinski making his NHL debut tonight, all of our picks in this draft have played in an NHL game. They are:

Rickard Rakell (our 1LW)
John Gibson (starting goaltender)
William Karlsson (currently Vegas's 1C)
Joseph Cramarossa (played in the NHL with us last season, claimed by Vancouver, now apart of the Flames' AHL team)
Andy Welinski (making his debut tonight, hopefully will be a bottom pairing defenseman)
Max Friberg (played a few games with us, got traded to Montreal for Tokarski but never played there, now in the SHL)
Josh Manson (excellent Top 4D)

How many teams have had this before?

If only Friberg would of scored in one of his 6 games all Ducks players from that draft would of now picked up at least 1 point in the NHL aswell.

2009 islanders
Tavares - 617 GP
de Haan - 301 GP
Koskinen - 4 GP
Nilsson - 88 GP
Cizikas - 375 GP
Klementyev - 1 GP
Lee - 291 GP

Islanders had another season with everyone they drafted playing some NHL games

1976 Amateur
Draft	Num.	Round	Player	Pos	Drafted From	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1976 Amateur	14	1	Alex McKendry	F	Sudbury Wolves [OHA]	46	3	6	9	21
1976 Amateur	32	2	Mike Kaszycki	F	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds [OHA]	226	42	80	122	108
1976 Amateur	50	3	Garth MacGuigan	C	Montreal Juniors [QMJHL]	5	0	1	1	2
1976 Amateur	68	4	Ken Morrow	D	Bowling Green State University [CCHA]	550	17	88	105	309
1976 Amateur	86	5	Mike Hordy	D	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds [OHA]	11	0	0	0	7
1976 Amateur	104	6	Yvon Vautour	F	Laval National [QMJHL]	204	26	33	59	401

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New York Islanders Draft History at hockeydb.com