I get the stats and buy into what you're saying completely of course, I'm just saying as someone who followed Foudy in junior, you could see what teams like Columbus saw in Foudy as a projectable 3rd line contributor who would be a PK threat. And to be fair, London doesn't usually play their 16 and 17 year olds as much as other major junior teams, explaining some of Foudy's lower production. I would have taken Foudy in the 40s though.
He is barely a fringe NHL player and was recognized as a massive reach at the time he was drafted. I think he qualifies.
Hickey is having a stellar run as a newer color guy for the Islanders too. I’m personally hoping (as well as many others) the Isles can groom him for some form of a front office position. He knows the game well and is extremely well spoken & detailed.
Even with Foudy, the hindsight stat line doesn’t tell the whole story there. after the trade deadline he paced above P/PG and was impressive in more ice time. Scouts love to see prospects that improve like that throughout the season. And he was a major riser up draft boards because of that.
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Here’s the problem with a lot of those “rankings”. A lot of them got released before he had his late season surge and scouts hadn’t yet been able to take his insane KHL playoffs into account yet. Just look at Bob’s ranking who had him at 12th - I think we can all agree that’s the definitive ranking. I think for people actually following the draft at the time, and keeping up with what was going on, weren’t surprised at all he went in that range.
Nah, Tkaczuk was ranked high in that draft, he went where he was supposed to. It wasn’t even a bad pick, concussions ruined him. Had 11 points in 19 NHL games and a good rookie season in the AHL
I remember people ripping that pick the moment it was made that his ceiling was Hockey Enforcer/Goon and he turned into a Enforcer/Fighter as predicted. Boucher and Mcillrath the worst 10th overall picks.
Using a 10th pick on a guy who had a big part of his resume say "fighter" in 2010 is pretty wild. Think people liked the idea of McIlrath more than the player itself and talked themselves into the player being some shutdown guy. People will see about 100 career NHL games and assume that makes him a better draft pick than a European equivalent that goes back home ten years ago, but he's just a guy who hung around long enough, went through waivers a bunch, played 600+ games in the AHL, signed league minimum deals etc. to squabble some sort of NHL career out of it.
Agreed on all points. Very good chance King Henrik has a Cup if the Rangers drafted almost anyone else not named McIlrath at 10, especially if they had selected Fowler or Tarasenko.
Rangers winning that cup finals over the Kings would have kept the Kings tied with Ducks in cups.
Not just 2014, the Rangers had great chances in 2012 and 2015 as well
Don’t know if he fits this category. He may have been a DND for some teams but he was definitely seen as a boom/bust high ceiling player. Not surprised he was the pick considering that seems to be DW Jr’s type
