Young Guns - You Went with the Wrong Prospect

[Dr John Carlson]

My Moosehead viewings told me Jonathan Drouin just had too much skill and would be the next Patrick Kane, while MacKinnon would just be a solid #1 pick.

 

[Voight]

I couldn't understand why Price was being picked by the Habs either. Obviously Bob Gainey saw something I didn't. I mean they had Theodore. Why do they need a goalie. Theodore, they are set with him.

They had Cristobal Huet as well

 

[overpass]

I don't follow prospects so much, but when it comes to young players with the Sens, I thought Peter Regin would have a better career than Nick Foligno. I thought Regin had the size, skill, and vision to have a solid career in the top six, and rated Foligno as a grinder who worked himself into dead ends with the puck.

As of today Foligno has played 999 more NHL games than Regin.

 

[markymarc1215]

I'm sure we all had players that we liked early on that we invested in the notion, that they'd have a greater career over another celebrated prospect within the same organization. We picked the wrong horse. Who was that guy for you (or guys)?

Maybe you were a Rangers' fan in the early '90s, and like me, you thought that Steven Rice was going to turn out to be the best pro over guys like Tony Amonte or Doug Weight. I had imaginary stock in that Steven Rice would eventually be the best player of the three. He was a year younger than Amonte, an inch taller than Weight, and in 1991, he captained Canada to a gold medal at the World Junior Hockey Championship. I was also impressed with his production with Kitchener in the OHL (60 points in 29 games in 1990-91), even still holding out a bit later with the Cape Breton Oilers in the AHL (66 goals in 96 games over two seasons).

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Well that never happened.

I also would have gone with Dmitri Khristich over Peter Bondra early on. He was a year younger, two inches taller, produced at a better clip early on, and was seemingly more defensively responsible.

Who was the player, who was their direct competition, and what was your reasoning then?

In the limited games he played in the 91 playoffs, Rice actually seemed like their best forward.