Top 10 picks between 1990 and 2008 who never played more than 150 NHL games:
Scott Scissons (6th overall 1990 - NYI) - 2 NHL games
Alex Stojanov (7th overall 1991 - VAN) - 107 NHL games
Ryan Sittler (7th overall 1992 - PHI) - No NHL games
Brandon Convery (8th overall 1993 - TOR) - 72 NHL games
Jason Bonsignore (4th overall 1994 - EDM) - 79 NHL games
Brett Lindros (9th overall 1994 - NYI) - 51 NHL games
Nolan Baumgartner (10th overall 1994 - WSH) - 143 NHL games
Steve Kelly (6th overall 1995 - EDM) - 149 NHL games
Terry Ryan (8th overall 1995 - MTL) - 8 NHL games
Alexandre Volchkov (4th overall 1996 - WSH) - 3 NHL games
Johnathan Aitken (8th overall 1996 - BOS) - 44 NHL games
Daniel Tkaczuk (6th overall 1997 - CGY) - 19 NHL games
Pavel Brendl (4th overall 1999 - NYR) - 78 NHL games
Brian Finley (6th overall 1999 - NSH) - 4 NHL games
Lars Jonsson (7th overall 2000 - BOS) - 8 NHL games
Brent Kahn (9th overall 2000 - CGY) - 1 NHL game
Mikhail Yakubov (10th overall 2000 - CHI) - 53 NHL games
Dan Blackburn (10th overall 2001 - NYR) - 63 NHL games
Petr Taticek (9th overall 2002 - FLA) - 3 NHL games
Alexandre Picard (8th overall 2004 - CBS) - 67 NHL games
Boris Valabik (10th overall 2004 - ATL) - 80 NHL games
Luc Bourdon (10th overall 2005 - VAN) - 36 NHL games
Zach Hamill (8th overall 2007 - BOS) - 20 NHL games
Nikita Filatov (6th overall 2008 - CBS) - 53 NHL games
Many reasons of course for why some of those guys didn't end up with more games, and in some cases not performance-related. But Zadina has more games than those guys already, so even if he is out of the league soon, he'll not have had a worse career than those guys.
