Biggest draft steal since Lundqvist?

[SnowblindNYR]

I've gone back and forth on whether I should include Fast and Hagelin in this poll since they were drafted so late and turned into excellent role players but I don't think they'd win when compared to Callahan, Dubinsky, Buch, Anisimov, and Shesty. Please take into account round drafted and impact. So Dubinsky would get docked points for being a second rounder. I'm not including anyone that has yet to play in the NHL or was a first rounder even though I think Chytil has been a very good player for us as a late first rounder. I'm also not including Girardi who was undrafted. If I'm forgetting someone obvious please let me know.

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[Harbour Dog]

Buch for me. If Shesty can stay healthy and maintain his level of play, it may easily be him when we look back in a few years.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

On second thought I probably shouldn't have included Anisimov. He wasn't here that long and he probably had less of an impact than Fast and Hagelin while taken several rounds ahead of them.

 

[Harbour Dog]

On second thought I probably shouldn't have included Anisimov. He wasn't here that long and he probably had less of an impact than Fast and Hagelin while taken several rounds ahead of them.

Yeah, given the choice between Fast or Anisimov, it is Fast by a mile for me. I think he was better anyway, much less once you factor in draft position.

e - *better for us*

 

[haohmaru]

Stepan @ 51 over AA @ 54 for me.

 

[ecemleafs]

went buchnevich because getting a 1st liner in the 3rd is rarer than a great goalie outside the first couple of rounds imo.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I knew I'd forget someone and I forgot about Stepan, can I edit the poll and put Stepan in Anisimov's place?

 

[SML2]

Too early for this. Im sure there will be some good ones coming down the pike though.

 

[SML2]

On second thought, Olaf Lindblom. Completely stole a chance for us to take a good player in the second round.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Even though he never played for us, Marek Židlický was a great draft pick. 800 games for a player drafted in the 7th round is great.

But if we are going by what was best for the Rangers, I'd have to go with 3rd round pick Buchnevich in 2013. A pick we got in the Nash trade and being on pace for a 70-point season (82 GP) at age 26, he's reaching his ceiling.

 

[Number 9]

I like this poll, and i'm gonna go with shesterkin with what he has done so far and what I think the future will bring. All are good options though.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I added Stepan.

 

[Cmox]

G- Chris Holt- drafted #106 1.000 avg. unbeaten in the NHL.












just bumping this.

 

[Hire Sather]

On second thought, Olaf Lindblom. Completely stole a chance for us to take a good player in the second roumd.

One of the most confusing picks I've ever seen this team make.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

One of the most confusing picks I've ever seen this team make.

Similar to the Lafleur pick a while back but the Rangers didn't draft as well back then.

 

[mrhockey193195]

Stepan for now, but by all indications it will be Shesty very soon. If Buch keeps this up, he will also surpass Step as a “steal”

 

[Daves a mess]

Similar to the Lafleur pick a while back but the Rangers didn't draft as well back then.

God i hated that pick.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Is it me or does Shesty play like Hank? I mean technique, poise in net. Plus better puck skills.

 

[smoneil]

Stepan for now, but by all indications it will be Shesty very soon. If Buch keeps this up, he will also surpass Step as a “steal”

Same answer for same reasons with same explanations about why/when the vote could change.

 

[Edge]

Right now it’s Stepan.

Buch and Shesterkin should be better, but I don’t know if I can go with “should be” quite yet.

 

[mas0764]

A 1C (ish) outside the first round has to be the answer.

 

[ViD]

On second thought I probably shouldn't have included Anisimov. He wasn't here that long and he probably had less of an impact than Fast and Hagelin while taken several rounds ahead of them.

He deserves to be there just for the “reload my weapon, you know”

 

[Barnaby]

I’d vote Callahan although Shesterkin or Buch may surpass him. Stepan was great but was drafted higher than the others.

Hagelin should def be on the list IMO even though he wouldn’t be my pick. He’s def more impactful than a guy like Fast

 

[KevinFinnerty]

Went with Stepan at 2nd round 51st overall, not bad for a solid line center in his prime

 

[Bluenote13]

Callahan was basically a 5th rounder who became captain and was on the ice for everything important for 6 years plus, not to mention he was traded for the guy that was instrumental in getting us to our first finals since 94.

Buch and Shesty, too soon to say. Stepan was a great pick but he was a high pick, top notch prospect in his draft year, going to a top notch hockey school and his father had been a Ranger draft pick.