Highest pick used on a goon?

[Passchendaele]

Recently, Ben Eager was drafted in the 1st round.

 

[V-2 Schneider]

Those interested ought to look at the 1983 draft, arguably the best ever for tough guys.Probert was the 46th pick.

 

[V-2 Schneider]

The PIMS totals from the 1983 draft are off the charts.

Probert,Kocur, Kordic,Neely,Tocchet....

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl1983e.html

 

[Slapshooter]

Goon is a type of player who regularly intimidates players of an opposite team, no matter if those opponents are "pure skill players" or tough guys. Goon threats primarly with pummelings, suckerpunches, slashings, kneeings etc. type of real hockey violence.

There are very few, if any, pure goons at NHL level. Most fighters are just enforcers fighting with other enforcers. A rather pointless actually. There may be more occassional "goon acts" from aggressive players(including enfocers themselves) resulting spontaneous retaliation fighting, but Dave Schultz type of players are pretty much history. Actually even some pest players(U.Samuelsson,B.Marchment) were closer to goons than some fighters/enforcers.

 

[Big Phil]

Tie Domi 27th overall in 1988.
3515 career PIM's.

We may have a winner. While Domi isnt as bad of a player as some have suggested (he could outskate Sundin in the Leafs skills comp) he still was never going to be confused with Mike Bossy. Enforcer might be a better word for him though

 

[Beliveau]

I don't know when they were drafted, but I consider Clarke and Bertuzzi to be goons.

 

[Bullet]

Eric Lindros 1st Overall Qubec Nordiques

 

[saskganesh]

Jimmy Mann was drafted before Micheal Goulet. 1st round 1999.

 

[saskganesh]

1979 was the deepest draft ever. The first round alone had 11 players who went on to play over 1000 games. Who did the Winnipeg Jets draft? Jimmy Mann, whose NHL career consisted of 30 points and 895 PMs in 293 games. It was somewhat prophetic of the luck Winnipeg would have in the NHL.

what he said

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

i don't remember. were nazarov or dingman considered future contributors when they were taken in the first round? 'cos they sure turned out to be goons.

 

[MXD]

Goon is a type of player who regularly intimidates players of an opposite team, no matter if those opponents are "pure skill players" or tough guys. Goon threats primarly with pummelings, suckerpunches, slashings, kneeings etc. type of real hockey violence.

Pretty much describes Behn Wilson.

 

[VanIslander]

Scott Parker was taken 20th overall in 1998. He was considered a budding power forward, until teams realized he had hands of concrete and couldn't skate.

He is exactly who I thought of: he was a goon and everyone knew it. I was in Kamloops and saw plenty of games against Kelowna. Anybody who thought he was a budding power forward didn't see how he scored in major junior hockey.

Everybody I know KNEW Parker was a first round dud, a 4th or 5th rounder at best. But us Blazers fans were just happy that the Avs used their first of two 1st rounders that draft on Robyn Regehr.

 

[blueliner]

i don't remember. were nazarov or dingman considered future contributors when they were taken in the first round? 'cos they sure turned out to be goons.

I do recall scouting reports on both that mooted an untapped power forward laying within, particularly on Nazarov.

Remembering of course this was in the day and age where scouts and by extension NHL organisations placed an unreasonably high premium on size and size alone.

 

[Loto68]

Tiger Williams was 31st overall, though he was a bit more talented than a pure goon.

1971-72 Swift Current Broncos WCHL 68 12 22 34 278
1972-73 Swift Current Broncos WCHL 68 44 58 102 266
1973-74 Swift Current Broncos WCHL 66 52 56 108 310
1974-75 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 39 16 11 27 202
1974-75 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 42 10 19 29 187
1975-76 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 78 21 19 40 299
1976-77 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 77 18 25 43 338
1977-78 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 78 19 31 50 351
1978-79 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 77 19 20 39 298
1979-80 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 55 22 18 40 197
1979-80 Vancouver Canucks NHL 23 8 5 13 81
1980-81 Vancouver Canucks NHL 77 35 27 62 343
1981-82 Vancouver Canucks NHL 77 17 21 38 341
1982-83 Vancouver Canucks NHL 68 8 13 21 265
1983-84 Vancouver Canucks NHL 67 15 16 31 294
1984-85 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 8 5 2 7
1984-85 Detroit Red Wings NHL 55 3 8 11 158
1984-85 Los Angeles Kings NHL 12 4 3 7 43
1985-86 Los Angeles Kings NHL 72 20 29 49 320
1986-87 Los Angeles Kings NHL 76 16 18 34 358
1987-88 Los Angeles Kings NHL 2 0 0 0 6
1987-88 Hartford Whalers NHL 26 6 0 6 87
NHL Totals 962 241 272 513 3966


You just don't see number like that anymore.

The only guy taken before him in that draft that played more NHL games was Trottier. Other guys like Mark Howe also played in the WHA and some guys played only a few less.

 

[x-bob]

Scott Parker, 20th Overall. The Avs had four first rounders, and knew they wouldn't be able to afford paying all three "first round money". They knew Tanguay, Skoula and Regehr would demand as much, so they decided to fill a need and meet their budget by drafting Parker.

Thats a stupid mentality, they should have traded the pick IMO and drafted Parker later in the draft