Most disappointing 1st round pick ?

[MadLuke]

What's worse? Hoping for a 95-96 value player and getting 40? Or hoping for an 80 value and getting 0?

One way to look at it, what Ottawa could have got if they traded that first overall pick minus what they would have traded for a 40 type player (we can imagine little, that a player you can sign any summer at a good price, the wild got him around league minimum + bonus)

Versus what you get for trading a 80 player.

 

[Butchie91]

Griffin Reihart

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Scott Glennie is one that goes under the radar, considering it was Dallas who picked him, this was when the Stars' drafting mostly sucked, and when the team started to become extremely mediocre/uninspiring.

 

[Hippasus]

Nick Stajduhar (defenseman, drafted 16th overall in 1993 by Edmonton). Jason Bonsignore (centre, drafted 4th overall in 1994 by Edmonton) as well, but he's been mentioned.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Brandon Gormley had a ton of hype for whatever reason going into the 2010 Draft (allegedly he did everything well but nothing at an elite level) and he was insanely disappointing. Coyotes really sucked in that 1st Round: Gormley at 13 and Visentin at 27.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Scott Glennie is one that goes under the radar, considering it was Dallas who picked him, this was when the Stars' drafting mostly sucked, and when the team started to become extremely mediocre/uninspiring.

Glennie effectively Injury Retired not long after his ELC ended. I imagine if he was relatively healthy/hung around North American pro hockey longer, he'd string together some number of NHL career games to mask his bust status a bit more. It doesn't seem like he was a particularly terrible AHL player at what would still be pretty young ages.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Glennie effectively Injury Retired not long after his ELC ended. I imagine if he was relatively healthy/hung around North American pro hockey longer, he'd string together some number of NHL career games to mask his bust status a bit more. It doesn't seem like he was a particularly terrible AHL player at what would still be pretty young ages.

Everyone on the Internet seems to believe that Glennie didn't love being a hockey player and didn't take his pro career seriously enough to get everything out of his talent

 

[SealsFan]

In 1977, the Cleveland Barons took Mike Crombeen 5th overall. Ten picks later, the Islanders took Mike Bossy...

 

[carjackmalone]

Brian Lawton

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

to me, cody hodgson

i choose to live in an alternate timeline where hodgson and chris tanev (both 21) were ready in 2011 and filled the gaping holes at fourth line center and bottom pair D

malhotra got hurt, lapierre competently moved up to the third line, and they were left with literally no NHL calibre players to center the fourth line the entire playoff run (including hodgson, who got into a dozen games), so the fourth line almost exclusively played 5 or fewer minutes per game, running the top two lines completely ragged. if only cody could have continued his trajectory after his sakic-esque 2009 CHL season and been ready in his draft+3.

on D, ballard could never gain AV’s trust, so he was ultimately replaced by journeyman #7 aaron rome. then game one of the finals, hamhuis ends his season on a huge hipcheck on lucic. ballard and andrew alberts each fail to hold down the vacated minutes, so 21 year old tanev gets in anyway. but if he’d been a couple years ahead of schedule…

to me this fantasyland is more disappointing than the real disappointment of hodgson, which was acting like an ass and getting himself traded instead of sticking around, making good on his promise, and extending that sedin/luongo core’s window.

 

[hockey17jp]

Brandon Gormley had a ton of hype for whatever reason going into the 2010 Draft (allegedly he did everything well but nothing at an elite level) and he was insanely disappointing. Coyotes really sucked in that 1st Round: Gormley at 13 and Visentin at 27.

Him and Hunter Shinkaruk were sure fire superstars in NHL 14 GM Mode.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

to me, cody hodgson

i choose to live in an alternate timeline where hodgson and chris tanev (both 21) were ready in 2011 and filled the gaping holes at fourth line center and bottom pair D

malhotra got hurt, lapierre competently moved up to the third line, and they were left with literally no NHL calibre players to center the fourth line the entire playoff run (including hodgson, who got into a dozen games), so the fourth line almost exclusively played 5 or fewer minutes per game, running the top two lines completely ragged. if only cody could have continued his trajectory after his sakic-esque 2009 CHL season and been ready in his draft+3.

on D, ballard could never gain AV’s trust, so he was ultimately replaced by journeyman #7 aaron rome. then game one of the finals, hamhuis ends his season on a huge hipcheck on lucic. ballard and andrew alberts each fail to hold down the vacated minutes, so 21 year old tanev gets in anyway. but if he’d been a couple years ahead of schedule…

to me this fantasyland is more disappointing than the real disappointment of hodgson, which was acting like an ass and getting himself traded instead of sticking around, making good on his promise, and extending that sedin/luongo core’s window.

Samuelsson, Raymond, Hamhuis all knocked out with injuries, Kesler, Higgins, Malhotra, Ehrhoff, Edler, and probably more played through injuries. Tanev did more than what was reasonably expected of him as an NCAA UDFA coming out of RIT. Just a shame that Hodgson had a massive back injury in 2009 that prevented him from playing much in his last year of junior and thus was less ready to go in 2010-11.

Hodgson just never progressed, not sure if that was the back injury, early onset symptoms of his malignant hyperthermia, or just lack of growth.

 

[Albatros]

In 1977, the Cleveland Barons took Mike Crombeen 5th overall. Ten picks later, the Islanders took Mike Bossy...

Bossy was too expensive for Cleveland, otherwise they likely would have drafted him.