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.

 

[Air Budd Dwyer]

In recent memory as a Red Wings fan, it has to be Michael Rasmussen. Drafted 9th overall in 2017 and most Red Wings fans knew it was a bad pick before he even got up on the stage lol.

I remember being pretty pumped about drafting 9th since it was the Wings' highest pick since taking Martin Lapointe 10th overall in 1991. Oddly enough, Lapointe (at 5'11" and 215lbs) is who I wish Rasmussen (at 6'6" 220lbs) would play like since he scores at about the same clip. Rasmussen is one of those dudes who is big for no good reason lol. Never lays the body, can't fight, plays a soft soft SOFT brand of hockey. Any of Vilardi, Suzuki, Tippett, or Necas (the next 4 players selected after Ras) would've been greatly appreciated. Thanks Ken Holland.

 

[Austerlitz]

Griffin Reihart

This isn't a bad answer. One team spent a high draft pick on him, then another team then spent even MORE draft capital to obtain him.

Most picks disappoint one team. Reinhart disappointed two.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

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.

oh no shade at all to tanev’s service in his first year of pro hockey. hodgson as well really can’t be faulted. to me, it’s just the tragedy of that sedins/luongo core that there wasn’t more of a push from below. just like how the sedins unfortunately didn’t become the sedins until after naslund and bertuzzi’s peaks had expired.

their youngest guys were hansen and schneider, both 25 years old when that playoff run started and in their draft+7 years. the bruins had tyler seguin contributing, the second kings team had toffoli and pearson, the hawks had toews and kane the first time, then saad, shaw, and leddy, then teravainen.

it just would have been so nice if we’d had a pair of 21 year olds step in and be ready to play legit NHL minutes when all those injuries hit. imagine hodgson and tanev were playing at the level of, say, gomez and colin white when they were rookies on the devils...

after game 5 you’d have:

sedin sedin (injured) burrows
higgins hodgson kesler (injured)
torres lapierre hansen
glass malhotra (one eye) tambellini/oreskovich

edler bieksa
ehrhoff (injured) tanev
alberts salo

those two guys being able to hold down leverage minutes changes the complexion of the team’s depth. imagine hodgson fulfilling his promise to help that powerplay, or the tanev of a few years later to steady the PK.

 

[WarriorofTime]

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.

There’s the more unspoken impact of Bourdon dying too. That’s a 24 year old tenth overall pick too. Trading for Ballard obviously did not end up working out. It’s a bit surpassing Canucks were icing such a bad fourth line in the postseason given how easy that should be to patch at TDL.

 

[GlitchMarner]

In recent memory as a Red Wings fan, it has to be Michael Rasmussen. Drafted 9th overall in 2017 and most Red Wings fans knew it was a bad pick before he even got up on the stage lol.

I remember being pretty pumped about drafting 9th since it was the Wings' highest pick since taking Martin Lapointe 10th overall in 1991. Oddly enough, Lapointe (at 5'11" and 215lbs) is who I wish Rasmussen (at 6'6" 220lbs) would play like since he scores at about the same clip. Rasmussen is one of those dudes who is big for no good reason lol. Never lays the body, can't fight, plays a soft soft SOFT brand of hockey. Any of Vilardi, Suzuki, Tippett, or Necas (the next 4 players selected after Ras) would've been greatly appreciated. Thanks Ken Holland.

What about Zedina?

 

[Air Budd Dwyer]

What about Zedina?

Zadina goes without saying lol. That was Holland’s parting gift to the Red Wings. We can go through almost all of Holland’s 1st round picks between 2005-2018 and be largely disappointed lol. But to be fair, I remember at the time that most of us were thrilled with the pick. Zadina was projected to go higher than 6 so I really can’t even hate on Holland for that one.

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

Zadina goes without saying lol. That was Holland’s parting gift to the Red Wings. We can go through almost all of Holland’s 1st round picks between 2005-2018 and be largely disappointed lol. But to be fair, I remember at the time that most of us were thrilled with the pick. Zadina was projected to go higher than 6 so I really can’t even hate on Holland for that one.

Yeah, as I recall a lot of people at the time thought it crazy how Zadina and Veleno fell and that Detroit landed them both?

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

It’s a bit surpassing Canucks were icing such a bad fourth line in the postseason given how easy that should be to patch at TDL.

they came out of the trade deadline with this roster:

sedin sedin burrows
raymond kesler samuelsson
torres malhotra hansen
glass lapierre higgins

with that kind of bonkers depth, you kind of expect that you can slide in one or two of rookie hodgson, jeff tambellini, and victor oreskovich for injuries or matchups or slumps and one of them would rise to the occasion and another could tread water. alas

(hence why cody is my top disappointment—all we needed was for him to have just one tyler seguin against the lightning game in him…)

 

[Air Budd Dwyer]

Yeah, as I recall a lot of people at the time thought it crazy how Zadina and Veleno fell and that Detroit landed them both?

100%. Because Veleno is one of 9 people to have exceptional status for the CHL draft so of course upon hearing that, I was elated with the steal of the draft they’d just took. Unfortunately he turned out to be closer to the Sean Day level of exceptional instead of the Connor McDavid level of exceptional lol.