What draft year in NHL history has showcased the most talent? In other words, what year has netted the best results as far as great playing careers from the NHL's entry draft? Have at it, hockey fans!
2007-08-14 18:34:57 · 15 answers · asked by Snoop 5 in Sports ➔ Hockey
How about 1979.
1. Rob Ramage - 1044 games, 2 rings
3. Mike Foligno - 1017 games, 355 goals
4. Mike Gartner - 1432 games, 708 goals, HOF
5. Rick Vaive - 876 games, 441 goals
6. Craig Hartsburg
7. Keith Brown
8. Ray Bourque - 1532 games, 1 ring, 5 Norris, 19 all star games, HOF
9. Laurie Boschman
10. Tom McCarthy
11. Mike Ramsey
12. Paul Reinhart
13. Doug Sulliman
14. Brian Propp - 1016 games, 425 goals
15. Brad McCrimmon
16. Jay Wells
17. Duane Sutter
20. Michel Goulet - 1089 games, 548 goals, HOF
21. Kevin Lowe - 1254 games, 6 rings
40. Dave Christian
41. Dale Hunter
42. Neal Broten
44. Guy Carboneau
48. Mark Messier
69. Glenn Anderson
Other notable players include Tomas Jonsson, Lindy Ruff, Pelle Lindbergh, Mats Naslund, Tim Hunter, Rick Wamsley, Keith Crowder, Rollie Melanson, Jim Peplinski, Ray Neufeld, Anton Stastny, Dirk Graham, Alan Haworth and Tim Watters. In total, 81% of this draft played in the NHL.
This draft was deeper in part because of the folding of the WHA. The WHA had allowed players under the age of 18, so the NHL allowed the drafting of underage players for the first time since 1974. They held the draft in August because of threatened legal action by Tom McCarthy. McCarthy would have just missed the age cut off and would have had to wait one more year to become eligible. The draft was limited to just 126 players which created free agent opportunities for those who did not get selected. This included Dino Ciccarelli, Tim Kerr, J-F Sauve, Ron Flockhart and Dave Pichette.
http://www.hockeydraftcentral.com/1979/79facts.html
http://www.legendsofhockey.blogspot.com/2007/06/nhl-entry-draft-history-1979.html
2007-08-14 19:27:43 · answer #1 · answered by Lubers25 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
1984 without a doubt.
Look at these guys:
Mario Lemieux
Kirk Muller
Ed Olczyk
Al Iafrate
Peter Svoboda
Gary Roberts
Kevin Hatcher
Scot Melanby
Patrick Roy
Michael Pivonka
Ray Sheppherd
Brett Hull
Kjell Samuellsson
Cliff Ronning
Gary Suter
Luc Robitaille
Jeff Brown
Jeff Norton
Stephan Richer
Doug Bodger
Shane Corson
That's pretty freaking good.
2007-08-15 06:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
2003= Fleury, Staal, Horton, Zherdev, Vanek, Michalek, Suter, Coburn, Phaneuf, Kostitsyn, Carter, Brown, Seabrook, Bernier, Parise, Getzlaf, Burns, Kesler, Richards, Perry, Eaves. They all played more than 200 NHL games. 21 players compared to 9 in 2004. And they're not going to get to 200 even 1 years later except for 4 or 5 players. That's the same thing for the other rounds. (Eriksson, Bergeron, Fritsche, Carle, Weber, O'Sullivan, Backes, Hejda, Stempniak, Gervais, Pavelski, O'Brien, Tarnasky)
2016-03-16 23:47:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gab&Thomas, if you have nothing useful to say in your answer, don't answer. It makes you seem less intelligent.
Now, to answer your question Snoop; I think it was the 1984 NHL draft. Mario Lemieux, Patrick Roy, Brett Hull, and Luc Robitaille. That's a lot of hall-of-famers for one draft. The 1987 draft was really good too, Pierre Turgeon, Brendan Shanahan, Joe Sakic, and Mathieu Schneider. There were probably better drafts than those two, but I don't remember right now.
2007-08-14 19:21:35 · answer #4 · answered by N/A 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You can't argue with 1979 the amount of talent that resulted from that draft is almost mind boggling.
Obviously the 2005 the "Sindney Crosby Sweepstakes" was significant. It was run unlike any other draft in recent memory and included only one player that anyone remembers. I read through the names of the players from that draft and can only say I've heard minimal mention of a few players from that year. So all in all OBVIOUSLY not one to include is a list of "Best" hockey draft years.
2007-08-15 03:53:11 · answer #5 · answered by The Captain #19 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2003 or 2005
2014-09-17 16:26:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of our answerers, cyrenaica, is working on a book with the NHL about the NHL draft.
As previously stated, 1979 is the answer statistically speaking.
2007-08-14 23:58:39 · answer #7 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in recent years i have to say 2003
Marc Andre Flury
Eric Staal
Nathan Horton
Thomas Vanek
Zach Parise
Ryan Getzlaf
Corey Perry
Patrick Eaves
Nathan Paetsch
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2015-01-28 07:52:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1983 and 1984 had some great top end talent, but 1981 was pretty deep as it produced bigger names like
Hawerchuk, Francis, Fuhr, MacInnis, Chelios, Vernon, Vanbiesbrouck
along with solid NHLers (300 + gp) like
J. Patrick, B. Carpenter, G. Gallant, B. Driver, J. Benning, S. Smith, G. Butcher, R. Moller, T. Tanti, T. Kurvers, S. Arniel, J. Erixon, P. Sundstrom, P. MacDermid, C. Loiselle, C. Malarchuk, G. Dineen, W. Young, K. Dahlin, R. Buskas, M. Eagles, G. Donnelly, G. Stefan, G. Duchesne, G. Delorme, M. Hunter, P. Skriko, A. Cote, D. Hannan, K. Takko, D. Kennedy, S. Bjugstad, M. Habscheid, P. Sidorkiewicz and R. Zombo.
2007-08-14 19:21:43 · answer #10 · answered by zapcity29 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋