Stevex said:and here's a HF Posters one for the same draft:
Bouwmeester
Pitkanen
Nash
Babchuk
Lehtonen
Whitney
Upshall
Eminger
Hudler
Lupul
Semin
Evseev
Grebeshkov
Taticek
Boychuk
Nystrom
Barinka
Vagner
Koreis
Bergenheim
Stehlik
Henrich
Deslauriers
Rome
Paille
Anshakov
Monych
Higgins
Fernholm
Bouchard
Reveille said:Shinin is still a good defenseman. I mean, I heard he had a BIT of attitude problems. But.. Well. I just don't understand him not being drafted *shrugs*.
Stevex said:IIRC the Shinin selection wasn't quite intentional. The editor couldnt make the live editors draft so he sent a list to the organisers and Shinin was on it by mistake or something. Im not sure exactly but the pick stood anyway since it was live.
Sigh the Coyotes had two first rounders.. just our luck they were in a terrible draft.. especially after another year when we had two (Briere and Focht) in a crappy draft year. Neither Koreis nor Eager looks that impressive and they cant claim they didnt know about Alex Steen! Maybe thats why they took Liam Lindstrom a year later in fear of making a similar mistake..
st_roland said:I wouldn't say 2002 was a terrible draft. I'm no Mizral, but I recognize 15 names on that list as being capable of being great hockey players. Plus its just a year later, wait a couple years, then judge how good of a draft it was.