The WORST NHL Draft Predictions of All Time 

Its sad to see one of the best goalies of his era die.

Sad seeing the legends go one by one. RIP.

RIP Tony 😞

One of the Goat of goalies

I know. Rip Tonio

The dude is an idiot, I feel sorry for the Ottawa Senators for hiring him

Let's not forget the comment that he said moments before Marc-Andre Fleury let a fluke of a goal

Pierre is a 100% a first class moron in every other scenario BUT not in this case He never questioned Pricer's skill but rather the fact that Montreal already had goalies in the system (Huet, Aebisher, Yann Danis and they still had Thedore to start the season) and they had bigger needs to satisfy than a goalie, which was correct (At the time) Danis never panned out and Huet and Aebisher were decent but again, there's no way they could've known that at the time, the way it looked in 2005 Montreal didn't need a goalie

@@SciyonGenysis David aebischer wasn't with Montreal at that time. He was traded to Montreal for Jose Theodore.

@@quentinbroome2778 Im aware but my point was both were in the system in 05-06 at various points but yes Price was drafted before David was with them (but still Montreal still had what looked to be 3 solid goalies at the time of drafting Price)

Alexandre was a great player. The problem is that he was not developed at all. He was not surrounded by veteran players.

@@MrDecelles Exactly. Maybe there is something wrong in the teams that drafted them.

@@MrDecelles I don't think anyone would call him a great player. I think he had enormous talent, but without good attitude and motivation, as well as perhaps a bad situation in Ottawa as you mentioned, he failed miserably. To be a great player you have to be able to perform and succeed, can't just have talent

@@MrDecelles What? What about "force de caractère"?

@@Chaturanger They obviously chose wrongly in that department... flawed but good player. That kid needed parenting.

Interesting. Famous NBA bust Darko Milicic had the same problem: He was never very passionate about basketball, but he was 7 feet tall and grew up poor in Serbia, so he was pushed to basketball as a way to escape poverty. You can have all the talent in the world, but it doesn't mean anything if you're not passionate about what you do

To be fair to Daigle (this creator won't be), Ottawa was coming off their expansion season. The WORST first season in NHL history. 10 wins. SEVENTY losses. And four ties. They were outscored 202-395. To think ANYONE could have turned them around with the absolute nothing the Sens had is ridiculous. They could have had Lemieux, and 30 wins, 250 goals is the BEST they could have hoped for. To be blunt, the old expansion rules meant that, unless a team got lucky with defense and goaltending (like Minnesota's early run to the Western Final, or Florida's early run to the Cup), they were FUCKED.

Two more examples of that: Sergei Bobrovsky with Columbus (a team that took 8 years to make the playoffs at just .500, and 13 seasons to actually win more games than they lost) and the San Jose Sharks with Arturs Irbe. Now, the key that Daigle COULD have played, had the Sens been at least capable on defense and had a good goalie, is the role that Marian Gaborik and Sergei Makarov played for those teams. With Columbus, they built a bit more depth, so they didn't need one really good player to make the playoffs. But they also took a LONG time to win their first playoff game, let alone playoff series. Ottawa never really built that, especially not early on. Daigle would have been better, playing with the 2003 Sens, but he was about 10 years too early to the party.

Oh, and as a counterpoint, he played 14 years of pro-hockey. Not sure I'd put 20+ years (including juniors) if I didn't actually enjoy something. That's like saying.. hey, I hate this job BUT I'm still going to stay here for the next two decades for no reason whatsoever.

One of the weakest drafts ever.

@Liam Dooling (STUDENT) Love Kopitar

@@glaframb lattendresse suffers concussions

I strongly disagree. Yes Price has been an outsrtanding goalie but in no way has that horrible for Montreal. Habs made it to a Stanley Cup final just last season with Price tending the net. Furthermore Habs went to Conference Finals in 2014. They lost to NYR after he was injured by Kreider and Habs also went to Conference Semi Finals in 2015. That's a lot better than most other teams have done in the last 7 or 8 years. Drafting Price has definitely NOT been horrible for Montreal.

Can't stand listening to that guy.

Wait adam larsson actually a really good defensemen tho.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I WOULD PIN THIS But Gotta respect Espo haha

As an AVs fan, my list was always (in order): MacKinnon, Barkov, Jones. Barkov was like 10-15 days away from being to young for the 2013 draft and put up insane numbers as a raw 17-18 year old in Finland and took 4 minors. FOUR. As a 6’3” center, that’s incredible restraint and ability. It’s not hard to see why he’s one of the best two-way and gentlemanly players in the league every year.

Yeah man those young kids brings out the kid in Getzlaf. I said it in perry last year as a duck, he's lost interest in the game and Bobby has had some.personl problems. Getz still loves the game as much as he did when he was 18. Fav duck aside from teems and paul

the chemistry with Rakell for a couple of seasons was also pretty phenomenal!

I've always really liked the way Getzlaf has played. Great all around game and really good play maker. Hall of fame, jersey raising career.

He's pretty good in my franchise mode with the Red Wings in NHL21

How is it off? Yakupov was extremely hyped and seen as a legit #1 overall pick talent and projected to be very good. He then was not only a bust but a terrible player who couldnt stay in league ... Thats a massive bust that should be talked about. The draft being weak in general doesnt change any of that.

@@alessandroscuderi7300 Because 99% of this draft sucked. Being projected as the best out of a ton of busts and garbage doesn't say much. Probably only 4 of the top 10 will still be in the NHL next season, only 11 years later, that is horrible. Those 4 are good players, but not great, not perennial all-stars, not hall of famers... Brutal draft class, period.

@@alessandroscuderi7300 Yes he was projected to go first overall but nobody was projecting him as a blue chip hall of famer or anything. Was he a bust? Yes. Was 99% of this draft also busts? I'd say so

@@bigsave-cards2735 It being a bad draft class doesnt change anything with Yakupov. He was a super hyped #1 overall pick expected to be elite goal scorer and was a 4th liner who was out of NHL in 6 years. Hes literally the biggest bust this century. It 100% should be talked about a lot.

@@bigsave-cards2735 Yakupov is literally the biggest bust/flop this entire century... Weak draft class doesnt change that. He was still a spectacular bust and disappointment.

Simon Gamache had 143 then 184 pts in the Q as 19/20 yo... doesn't mean much!

@@judahnanas9772 Scoring as a 19/20 y/o playing in junior hockey doesn't mean much as you're pretty much a man among boys. Scoring a bunch as a 16/17 is exceptional.

The funniest thing is, if Daigle actually tried and delivered on his talent, he would have been a massive celebrity along the likes of Lemieux and Gretzky. Instead, the only thing he's famous for is being a spoiled clown that was the biggest bust in draft history.

Not a surprise Feaster and Weisbrod didn't last long after that. Made some great picks in the years since with our new scouting team. Getting a player like Mangiapane in the 6th round wasn't happening with the others at the helm. I read another depressing story about the 2011 draft and how they were looking at Kucherov but passed on him because they were planning to take Gaudreau and didn't want to nab two smaller guys.

Yeah but dangle actually had a couple decent years lol..yakupov was horrendous

Daige absolutely disliked hockey, said it multiple times that he got just so good at hockey he just keep going. For every Teemo Selanne and Rick Tocchet(guys playing sports they didn't like only because they hit professional levels good), you get Pat Falloon and Alexander Daige.

Could you imagine if Ottawa drafted Pronger AND had Chara on defense? The small guy in that pairing is 6 foot 6!

Thanks Charlie! I appreciate it! 50K has a nice ring to it ;)

@@idontgivetkachuk You've come a long way & keep getting better. Just keep doing what you do do & you'll get there & beyond.

Fair enough. But in the top 10 of any draft, it behooves a team to take the best player available, regardless of their needs (there are rare exceptions to this...but BPA is a sound general policy in the top 10, and certainly in the top 5). And at that time, I do think Price (5th overall) was a slightly better player than Anze Kopitar, who was drafted 11th...and certainly better than any of the other guys drafted after him in the 1st round (in fact, I think Price has turned out to be the 2nd-best player from that ENTIRE DRAFT, only beaten by Sid himself...other notables include a few excellent goalies such as Tuukka Rask, Ben Bishop and Jonathan Quick, a few excellent d-men including Kris Letang, Anton Stralman and Keith Yandle, and some excellent forwards like Kopitar, James Neal, T.J. Oshie, Paul Stastny, Bobby Ryan, and selected LAST, with the 230th pick, Patric Hornqvist, who was the indisputable steal of the draft). When you play the odds, and one player has greater odds of being elite than another, you won't always come out on top...but most of the time you will. And if you still have those needs later on, you can always trade for them with the more valuable player you drafted as the BPA. As it turns out, the Habs didn't need to do this...instead they traded Halak away, filling a need at center (with Lars Eller, who remains the 2nd or, at minimum, 3rd-best Dane to play in the NHL, despite him never being fully appreciated by the Montreal fans). And honestly...people forget just how close they came in 2014. If Price had not been Kreider-slammed (may the slimy bastard NEVER win a Cup), the Habs would have almost certainly beaten the Rags...and 2014 was a very different year than 2012 for the Kings. They were still a great team, but in 2012, they had Quick playing out of his mind (and if they'd met the Habs in the Finals that year, there's no way Montreal wins, given their goal-scoring woes). But in 2014, Quick was not nearly as invincible (his GAA in 2012 was 1.41 with a 0.946 SV%; in 2014 those numbers were 2.58 and 0.911) - I really think Montreal would have had a decent shot at the Cup had they made the Finals. What they did accomplish that playoffs (a conference final exit) was on the strength of Price and Subban sure...but who, pray tell, was their top point-scoring forward? Lars Eller, that's who, with 13 points in 17 playoff games (he had 5 goals, tied for 2nd on the team with Pacioretty and Vanek; Rene Bourque had 8 goals for 1st). So sure, Montreal did have a certain degree of luck to see Price reach his potential; but it takes more than luck to give your team a shot...it takes making the right moves at the right time, and both Gauthier and Bergevin did a really good job in this area, following the cinderella run of 2010.

They had halak too

The wisdom of McGuire will help the Sens relocate.

It’s not the fact none of the others panned out. It’s that carry turned out to be an absolute stub

Why do I feel like you wouldn't have made this comment if Pierre wasn't part of the Send front office lmao smells of copium

Always thought Craig Button is the Number 1 buffoon on hockey television. Pierre McGuire is for sure the Number 1B, and it may be even closer.

Crosby/Malkin, mcdavid/draisitle two off the top of my head but rarely are first lines stacked with all the talent especially in that era. A lot of people managed. Gotta quit making excuses for him, he just didn’t work or want it enough. Great theory tho.

Bro he literally halaked to the third round. He took out ovis caps and crosbys pens. It was a weird couple years where bad tenders did things.

What did you win with Price?

My sentiments exactly. I remember that choice very well. In hindsight it was choosing between a hall of fame superstar vs a very very good goaltender. Neither choice was horrible but of course the Canadians for once chose correctly. What was a shame was that he was traded only for Lars Ellers and Ian Schultz. He was worth more than that.

@@jogendron6320 the Hart the Vezina , the Jennings and the first and only ( for an east team ) The Campbell Cup.

271th lol

And that's exactly why you take the best player available, and not just draft by position. A lesson learned by so many teams in so many fail drafts.

Yeah, you can. Price was obviously gold; I knew it and don't have nearly the resources of McGuire. I was thrilled when they drafted him.

@@Braktooth you’re probably thrilled with lots of picks and then pat yourself on the back when they end up being good and forget about all the ones you were wrong about

@@renlysotherlover294 Love the assumptions here. But putting those aside, I don't get paid to make predictions. He does and that one was clearly terrible.

Price is the reason Montreal is such a bad team, imagine if they had Fleury.... They would EASILY make playoff every year.

Are you talking about sam reinhart?

@@josephsultana4973 griffin reinhart

Morgan Rielly was taken 5th in that draft. He was the only one that worked out.

@@salianni16 Well also Matt dumba, Hampus lindholm and you could add trouba if you wanted but 6/10 were 4-5 rounders at best. Outside the top 10 in the first round is where the 3 best players are like forsberg/vasilevskiy/teravainen. The whole first round was so bad as a whole though other then those guys! Lol

Well u just lose more than u normally would..

@@idontgivetkachuk Take a look at their roster for that season...they didn't tank, they were just that bad of a team. I went to see them play my Wings in that season in Ottawa and the Sens actually beat my Wings...talk about being pissed off leaving the arena.

💀 brutal

Would love him to fo a Khalamov vid, along with some of the old Soviet players. They may have played for the evil empire, but they were amazing to watch.

In doing more research they had 8 of the first 21 draft picks from the 1990 draft on their team at one point in time.

After we just signed Rask to 8 yrs..figure that out

Thanks Derrell!!

Karma haha

And Ottawa tanked for him lol!

The only way I can think of where he might have genuinely hurt the team is when, as you said, he made a mediocre team look much better than it was. The Habs had many years where neither Price, Subban nor Pacioretty had a big contract and they could easily have made a big push toward winning then. Instead, management preferred treading water with the thinking that "with Price in net, anything was possible". That was dumb thinking and is the real reason why Price never won a cup and Andrei Vasilevskiy did.

@@bwalker77 those years were so full of promise and it was really wasted

This was gonna be my comment as well. Not to mention, JV was a 3rd liner with Washington before being dealt to the Wings @ the deadline, then went on a TEAR to finish the year on the first line in Detroit. He has been injured all season, so we've not yet seen what kind of numbers he can put up with top 6 minutes and a much improved Red Wings team... Pastrnak is amazing, don't get me wrong, but I agree that the Vrana comparison is uneven or premature at best. Let's see what happens with a full season on a line with Larkin and Raymond! #LGRW

Evender Kane loves the casino! LOL

Sadly 😔😂

Gilbert Brule isn't even french canadian haha

Ya just imagine what Leon and Connor could’ve become

Yup I lived in Edmonton when he came. Nail was one of the more behaved Oilers. I never seen him out getting drunk. Seen Hall and RNH pissed out of their mind at 3am a few times

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" Ya know sometimes you got a big stick yourself there. *oddly stares*"

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Or Alex Svitov who went 3 in 2001 to Tampa. Who in 03-04 had 11 pts 40 games and only 20 penalty minutes. Then in 06 07 came back and had no discipline and had 145 pim that season

Yee thanks!

That's such a W

Yes so it's understandable why he would hype him up. But again.. Horrible reach lol

I'm a die hard Oilers fan and I'm convinced what happened to him was our coach Eakins. I watched him destroy Yakupov's development, confidence, and flair/love for the game. Yakupov would be creating chances and scoring, but the moment he made a turnover, Eakins would bench him. The Oilers were bottom feeders, and Hall would make a worse turnover, or a number of other players would, and they never got benched or received the same treatment that Yakupov did. I watched as his confidence and love for the game slowly faded, as did his success. I'm convinced that had he been coached by Tod Mclellan or Jay Woodcroft, or drafted by Yzerman, he could've lived up to his expectations.

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