RW Tyler Boucher - Belleville Senators, AHL (2021, 10th, OTT)

[William H Bonney]

Yeah, no.

He was right.

Way too early to say that when there are top 10 picks who either never played an NHL game or only played a handful of games.

It's clear Boucher was a horrid reach and his development also couldn't have gone worse since the draft. It's not clear yet at all if he's the worst top 10 pick in history.

 

[Michoulicious]

Way too early to say that when there are top 10 picks who either never played played an NHL game or only played a handful of games.

It's clear Boucher was a horrid reach and his development also couldn't have gone worse since the draft. It's not clear yet at all if he's the worst top 10 pick in history.

Of course, anything is possible and if he's healthy and everthing goes right he might, someday, somehow play a few games as a 4th liner in the NHL...

You were telling, after he was drafted, to a poster that said the guy had no upside and was a huge reach that he didn't know anything about the USNDP...

4 years later, we all must admit the doubters were right all along. #10 OA for a guy that MIGHT make it as a 4th liner if everything goes well and stays healthy is horrible drafting.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Way too early to say that when there are top 10 picks who either never played played an NHL game or only played a handful of games.

It's clear Boucher was a horrid reach and his development also couldn't have gone worse since the draft. It's not clear yet at all if he's the worst top 10 pick in history.

Boucher could still have an NHL career, it wouldn't shock me. But he wasn't a first rounder.

And yeah I agree, he was clearly a terrible pick at 10, but still not as bad as taking McIlrath at 10 ahead of Fowler & Tarasenko IMO.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Anyone see how Boucher looks in the A to start this season?

 

[NyQuil]

Anyone see how Boucher looks in the A to start this season?

People are actually still keeping tabs on this guy?

 

[Topcheese31]

People are actually still keeping tabs on this guy?

Yes, I think he can still be a usefull bottom 6 if he can stay healthy

 

[WarriorofTime]

Anyone see how Boucher looks in the A to start this season?

Third Line to start the year

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Apparently had a good preseason with the big team. Let’s see him stay healthy and then assess where he’s at. He’s good when he’s on the ice, but has missed like half of the last four years.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

0 points in 11 games to start his 2nd year in the A.

 

[StreetHawk]

0 points in 11 games to start his 2nd year in the A.

Feels like his selection was the start of this cycle that they are on with multiple head scratching decisions with their own first round pick for 3 straight drafts.
Take him at 10OA over a Sillinger who was a C. I mean, if you take a Winger at 10, he needs to be an impact guy physical guy if he's not a big scorer. That was followed by dealing 2022 1st and a 2 and 3 for DCat. Then they deal their 2023 first for Chrychrun to add another top 4 LHD to a group with Chabot and Sanderson.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Feels like his selection was the start of this cycle that they are on with multiple head scratching decisions with their own first round pick for 3 straight drafts.
Take him at 10OA over a Sillinger who was a C. I mean, if you take a Winger at 10, he needs to be an impact guy physical guy if he's not a big scorer. That was followed by dealing 2022 1st and a 2 and 3 for DCat. Then they deal their 2023 first for Chrychrun to add another top 4 LHD to a group with Chabot and Sanderson.

bit of a weird draft with COVID impacting everything, Boucher hadn't played much with injuries, an off the board "pick a player that fits a type" more than BPA kinda pick considering they had already drafted high for a few years.

The AHL team's twitter account projected lineup shows he's mostly been on what they had listed as the 3rd line, with some opportunities on what they had listed on the 2nd line, until the most recent game where he was demoted to 4th line. Played in every game so far. No points, 8 PIM, second worst +/- on team at -4. He's a 21 year old Wing (two months shy of 22nd birthday) that can't produce at the AHL currently. Just doesn't seem like it's gonna happen.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Feels like his selection was the start of this cycle that they are on with multiple head scratching decisions with their own first round pick for 3 straight drafts.
Take him at 10OA over a Sillinger who was a C. I mean, if you take a Winger at 10, he needs to be an impact guy physical guy if he's not a big scorer. That was followed by dealing 2022 1st and a 2 and 3 for DCat. Then they deal their 2023 first for Chrychrun to add another top 4 LHD to a group with Chabot and Sanderson.

I don't know why people always mention Sillinger. You'd think he's some NHL star the way people talk about what Ottawa missed out on. He's barely a serviceable NHL'er, and for large stretches in the NHL hasn't been. Criticize the pick of Boucher if you want, but because they passed up Sillinger? That's like being mad that a hitter in baseball was trying to pull the ball with two strikes in the air instead of taking the slap single the other way through the vacated hole. It's not really some big deal.