At least Ranger fans know it. They actually wanted Tarasenko from the sounds of it but Sather pulled a Muckler and thought he knew better than everyone in the room.
Just an abysmal pick. Could have had Fowler, Schwartz, Tarasenko, and so many others and they chose a guy that is actually a worse player than Eric Gryba (not that Gryba is bad, but a bottom-pairing D-man with a 10th overall pick?!? YIKES)
They've had some doozies.
Malholtra 7 OA (poor draft year, but could have had Tanguay, Antripov, Gagne)
Brendl 4 OA (really poor draft year, but could have had Pyatt or Connolly)
Lundmark 9 OA (same year as Brendl, but Boynton and Havlat were available)
Dan Blackburn 10 OA (Hamhuis, Hemsky, Umberger editors note: 4 goalies in the first round and all busts unless you like Leclaire???)
Jessiman 12 OA (Brown, Seabrooke, Nilsson, Parise, Getzlaf, Perry, Richards Burns, you know the drill, they found the only bad pick)
Montoya 6 OA (Smid, Radulov, Schnieder, Green)
Outside of the Jessiman year, it wasn't as if they picked the only bust, but that's a lot of disapointing high picks over the years even if weak draft years are partially to blame.
