 | 1996 Draft 10 Years Later |
 muckies writes "Well you know what they say, you can't judge a draft until 10 years down the road. The 1996 draft wasn't the best draft ever, Chris Phillips was the #1 selection to Ottawa. 11 total first round picks did not even play 82 games or a full NHL season. And there were some steals, big time late in the draft.
Notables were #1 Phillips, #2 Andrei Zuyzin, #3 J.P. Dumont, #6 Boyd Devereux.
If the draft were held today it would probaly look like this
#1 Zdeno Chara (selection #56)
#2 Daniel Briere ( #24 )
#3 Tomas Kaberle ( #204 or 37 from last to be selected)
#4 Chris Phillips ( #1 )
#5 Colin White ( #49 )
#6 Willie Mitchell ( #199 )
#7 Marco Sturm (#21)
#8 Pavel Kubina ( #179)
#9 Andrei Zuyzin ( #2 )
#10 Sami Salo ( #239 or third from last to be selected, way to go Sami)
other notables in the draft were Fernando Pisani (#95), Mark Parrish (#79), Tom Poti (#59) and Craig Adams (#223).
It's is amazing to see that Salo, Kaberle, Mitchell, Craig Adams, Ronald Petrovicky, were all drafted after the # 199 spot and they are some of the best players in the draft - Kaberle making the all-star team this season.
And how few offensive players emerged from the draft, Briere, Parrish and Sturm being the best players. Parrish leading the way in goals scored with 187 (328 Total Points), Briere leading in assists with 187 (333 Total Points), and Sturm leading with 336 Total Points (162 Goals)
The steal of the draft was Kaberle for the Lefas, Salo for the Sens and later Canucks, Chara is the best player in the draft, and all 3 were drafted outside of the first 2 rounds.
Just goes to show you can't jusdge the draft until 10 years down the road. GO PATRIC HORNQVIST, (the last palyer picked and #230 selection in the 2005 draft)"
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Re: 1996 Draft 10 Years Later (Score: 1)
by mtl_prince on Tuesday, January 16
(User Info | Send a Message) | interesting post
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Re: 1996 Draft 10 Years Later (Score: 1)
by habs_win_cup_2007 on Tuesday, January 16
(User Info | Send a Message) | | All in all it was a really poor draft year. With exception to Chara, Kaberle and Briere there are no real jump out at you superstars.....oh and i would take briere with the first pick over chara, but he would be second defintly. |
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Re: 1996 Draft 10 Years Later (Score: 1)
by plantos on Tuesday, January 16
(User Info | Send a Message) | 1997 Top 10 draft list
1- Joe Thornton (#1)
2- Marian Hossa (#12)
3- Roberto Luongo (#4)
4- Oli Jokinen (#3)
5- Patrick Marleau (#2)
6- Maxim Afinogenov (#69)
7- Ladislav Nagy (#177)
8- Brenan Morrow (#25)
9- Sergei Samsonov (#8)
10- Paul Mara (#7)
1998 Top 10 draft list
1- Vincent Lecavalier (#1)
2- Simon Gagné (#22)
3- Brad Richards (#64)
4- Scott Gomez (#27)
5- Alex Tanguay (#12)
6- Jonathan Cheechoo (#29)
7- Brian Gionta (#82)
8- Eric Cole (#71)
9- Robyn Regher (#19)
10- Brad Stuart (#3) |
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Re: 1996 Draft 10 Years Later (Score: 1)
by zamiam on Tuesday, January 16
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Zdeno Chara was discoverd by islander european scout. The scout supplied Zdeno with equipment, simply because there was no supplier that could suit his huge frame in his area. He was brought over, to develop his skills. At the time of the draft he was very raw, but what the islander liked, was he could skate well, beside the fact he was big and strong. At draft time, he would of been to risky selection, to go high. |
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Re: 1996 Draft 10 Years Later (Score: 1)
by caliplayr21 on Tuesday, January 16
(User Info | Send a Message) | sometimes, you just gotta have luck on your side. some of the greatest players in other sports were also chosen in latter rounds. always fun to see someone picked so low break out and have a good career.
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Re: 1996 Draft 10 Years Later (Score: 1)
by PhanufRoxs on Tuesday, January 16
(User Info | Send a Message) | Only first rounders who are stars:
1996: Briere
1997: Thornton, Marleau, Luongo, Jokinan, Hossa,
1998: Lecavilier, Stuart, Tanguay, Gagne, Gomez
1999: Havlat, the Sedins
2000: Heatley, Williams, Dipietro, Gaborik
2001: Spezza, Hemsky, Kovalchuk
Yeah, 1996 was probaly one of the worst draft years ever. 1999 was before the worst. Until maybe last year it looked like there was only 1 good player in the draft (Havlat). The best was 1991. |
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Re: 1996 Draft 10 Years Later (Score: 1)
by Kraftster on Wednesday, January 17
(User Info | Send a Message) | Interesting post, good call.
I'm not really sure how Zyuzin made your top 10???
I actually think Kaberle goes ahead of Briere based on a pure player ranking pick. Tons of guys go ahead of Zyuzin though:
Dumont, Zubrus, Derek Morris, Sarich, Cullen, Bulis, Poti, Lydman...
Interesting to look back at that draft and see how poor it really was for offensive talent. |
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Re: 1996 Draft 10 Years Later (Score: 1)
by thatleafsguy (HAB-itually Over SENS-ationalized Crap!) on Wednesday, January 17
(User Info | Send a Message) | Let's be honest. The clutch and grab style of hockey killed a lot of careers long before their time. Lots of good players either could not hack that tight defensive system and either had their career end prematurely or went over seas to show off their wares and make some big bucks there.
Blame most of the crappy drafting during the mid to late 90's on crappy defensive clutch and grab hockey stunting the developement of players' skills and not allowing hockey players to be hockey players, more so defensive, hooking, mindless dump and chase drones. |
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