jimmysheva
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Conner Bleackley for Colorado. Worst draft pick in franchise history.
maybe stamkos
I believe Stefan also said he was skating with a lingering hip problem for several seasons before seeking medical advice, which that doctor strongly advised him to retire.I would go with stefan and diagle...also def jessiman, mainly because I believe almost eversingle other player taken in that draft is a nhl regular now.
Sheldon Keefe
anyone remember him
his brother Adam is still kicking around in the AHL
Filatov was a big disappointment. Then you have Galchenyuk. He had some productive seasons, but you want a better career from a third overall pick. He showed some promise early on, too. Sam Bennett has become a solid and valuable player but still has to be considering disappointing for the hype he received and how high he was drafted. Chris Gratton had two 62 point seasons but otherwise scored in the 30 to 50 point range for years. Stu Barnes (fourth overall) peaked at 65 points and had numerous seasons with 29 to 49 points.
Obviously all these guys (except Filatov) were still solid players and better than players who didn't play in the NHL at all or were fringe players.
Mario Tremblay back in the day, did leak that it was probably the case in a live radio interview (it is supposed to be anonymous, but I imagine people talk a lot about it), he did try to use the nhl substance abuse help program more than once before leaving MTL.I think galchenyuk's off ice issues probably bled into his on ice performance.
It has to be Yakupov. I'm sure we all remember "Fail for Nail". I don't quite remember his comparable but he was just as hyped as Taylor Hall two years prior and way more hyped than Hopkins the year before.
350 total games. Out of the league by 2018.
Bad hockey IQ, didn't have the drive and determination to work on his craft consistently.I'm not sure what went wrong with him exactly. I don't think he even had a bad attitude or was lazy or unwilling to work to improve (although I've heard he only liked practicing things he was already good at).
I guess he simply wasn't as good as scouts thought. He had a good shot but wasn't anything special as a playmaker and wasn't a guy who could rush end-to-end or beat guys with one-on-one moves like fellow Russian first overall picks Kovalchuk and Ovechkin. He was also really bad defensively and he worked at improving in that regard but became an unnatural and non-instinctive player doing so.
Man, Nail Yakupov sucked.
I didn't see him at all in Juniors, but I caught an Oilers game early in his short rookie NHL season -- at which point he was still being hyped... and he did have a statistically-decent rookie year -- and my immediate reaction was, "This players blows."
It was clear to me from seeing him play once or twice that his hockey IQ was painfully low to process things at NHL-speed. It didn't help that he had basically a muffin shot. Then, when you add on the stories that have been told about his rather juvenile attitude towards a pro-hockey career (supposedly causing some scouts to cross him off their list), I really wonder what the Oilers' "brain"-trust was thinking in that period.
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You beat me to it. SSM he was decent but when he went in the 1st was a complete shock. Although he did score 1 goal in the NHLZach Senyshyn
Daigle was a disappointment, in sum, sure. But he was a serviceable, skilled NHL player. He played 616 games -- probably would have hit 1000 if he hadn't gone to Europe in his prime. He did lead an NHL team in scoring (when he was 28). So, both for the first few years of his career, and again near its end, he was a first-line NHL-er. This is A LOT more than can be said for some other 1st overall picks (Yakupov, Stefan).
Dieter Hegen was a beauty. Really underrated. The Habs drafted him only in the 3rd round 46th overall though, but I reckon he could have done a better NHL career than Daigle.He was a 1st liner on awful NHL teams, that's like bragging about being a 1st liner in the Bundesliga or something.
It's not really bragging when I described him as a "serviceable NHLer".Scott Pellerin also led one of those Minny teams in scoring. He (Daigle) didn't have any reasonable competition at all on those teams, from an offence point of view, and when he had (Yashin in Ottawa) he was comfortably out-paced. He was a 1st liner on awful NHL teams, that's like bragging about being a 1st liner in the Bundesliga or something.
It's not really bragging when I described him as a "serviceable NHLer".
I'm not saying he was a great player. I specifically said he was, in fact, a disappointment. I'm just saying he wasn't what I would call a "bust" because his career was a full tier (or two) above guys like Yakupov.
the line will be thin between a big disappointment and a really big disappointment, daigle never scored a playoff goal his whole career, was never a 0 or + player an good argument can be made that undrafted Desharnais career (AHL-swiss-NHL) > drafted above Pronger and Kariya Daigle.I'm not saying he was a great player. I specifically said he was, in fact, a disappointment. I'm just saying he wasn't what I would call a "bust" because his career was a full tier (or two) above guys like Yakupov.