What Happened To Every #1 Pick From The 1990's 

If he did score that goal, the Oilers probably draft Patrick Kane in the following entry draft. Though if their decade of despair ran its course he would have wanted out a few years later.

He skate to the net like that to take more time. He play the clock. Because less time it left to the game, left chance the other team have to come back.

@@XxKidnoffxX But if he puts it in the net, it becomes a 2 goal game with around 15 seconds left in regulation. Dallas wins the next face-off, game over.

@@grahamdamberger7130 But if he take more time (and he can easily do it, because he's alone), it will be a 2 goal game with around 10-12 seconds left..... You see the difference?

​@grahamdamberger7130 all good things lead to mcdavid. It hurt the whole dang way lol

The 90s were the trap decade. Hockey today is way better.

Definitely earned my sub

Agreed! Berard's eye injury was SCARY- I remember watching that game

​@@itzshade7830said the same thing to myself,fantastic channel

@@stephen9302 I watched that game too. It was pretty horrific. I still think about it, all these years later.

Settle down there chief. Good compilation of information, but “one of the best hockey videos”? Not a snowballs chance in hell. Tons of bad edits. He showed the same Berard goal with the Islanders at least twice, once while talking about his time with another team. He talked about Chris Phillips and Chara becoming the best shutdown pair while showing footage of several net mouth scrambles with Ottawa forward Marian Hossa in the OFFENSIVE ZONE.

sadly his injuries makes him a forgotten legend, a GOAT of ice hockey internationally for the olympics and sweden team aspect, but NHL he'll be remembered as 2nd team all-star by those who didn't witness. He is a true legend. But Pat Lafontaine and Cam Neely, sh*t happened.

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd What are you talking about. Forsberg is 9th in NHL history in PPG, he's in the HOF, he's got 2 Stanley Cup's,, a Calder, Art Ross and a Hart and the +/- weird one. Except for winning the Con smythe, I'm not sure what else you want from him.

@@sidetrak85 not from him accolades from modern fans . injuries cost him, imagine lie cam neely or lemieux were they not health restrained like koivu and forsberg would be

@@sidetrak85 if it weren't for Peter the Wings would have all the 90's cup wins.

colorado wasnt winning nothing until Roy showed up.

Oh yeah shoutout to the early 2000s

Solid player. Runner up for the Calder which isn't too common for a D man.

WAYNE GRETZKY > Jordan. His stats are untouchable. Agreed. Only Jaromir Jagr could have beaten Gretzky. Lost 4 seaons to lockouts... and some 1-2 more to KHL atop lockout ones. (JAROMIR = which can be mixed into Mario JR ! as an anagram)

Henri Richard is the Bill Laimbeer of the NHL... or is Laimbeer the Henri Richard of the NBA ? Henri Richard has 10 stanley cup rings and 1 stanley cup c*ckring

Wayne Gretzky of basketball is Wilt Chamberlain

*Remember

Marcel Dionne was a number 2 pick, behind Lafleur. I guess nobody remembers him either 🤔

@@samstone22744 You completely missed the point.

@@incumbentvinyl9291 not at all. Was just giving another example of how people don't always forget number 2.

@@samstone22744 Now you proved without a doubt that you missed the point completely.

but hey , the Maple Leafs knew ONE thing : hold onto Mats Sundin! If your team doesn't have Mats Sundin and he's playing : GET Mats Sundin. AND DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY. Simple plan. Always reliable. A true legend of 1990s hockey. (says a Quebecois, fan of the Red Wings...)

Dudes one of the most overrated players of all time.

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that makes complete sense - how many Canadian boys have had that be their story.

@@pjpredhomme7699 Too many!

@@pjpredhomme7699 Its sad since hockey is the craziest sport to get to the pros, the juniors is a breeding ground for some crazy hazing and bonding experiences.

Came here to say this

Why such a drastic difference compared to his dominating play in junior? Did the money go to his head or was there another reason. I heard he never wanted to play hockey but was forced into it by his parents, is this a known thing or just speculation?

@@redbaron8130 I heard the same thing, that he only player for his father, which is why he retired for a couple of seasons. I always liked him as a player, and don't have a problem with players who can't match the hype that gets thrown their way by scouts who may not have anyone better or more dynamic to about.

My older brothers had 2 Daigle rookie cards and some magazine had them appraised at about 50-60 €/USD in todays currency at some point in the 90's. My brothers were thinking about selling one of the cards but decided to wait instead. Next appraisal comes in, card is worth less than two bucks lol.

as a lifetime Ottawa resident.. FUCK DAIGLE lol. scrub.

The most noteworthy thing about Daigle’s career is that he was banging Pamela Anderson back when she was still hot.

Bryan Berrard > Wade Redden = Kirk Muller = Martin Straka > modern Don Beaupre = Damian Rhodes = Jesse Belanger ... as for : 1980s Don Beaupré ? among the GOAT tier :P (he was a fan fave in my quebec town among friends)

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Alfredsson was not too bad, he had alot of character at least

My older brothers had 2 Daigle rookie cards and some magazine had them appraised at about 50-60 €/USD in todays currency at some point in the 90's. My brothers were thinking about selling one of the cards but decided to wait instead. Next appraisal comes in, card is worth less than two bucks lol.

Wish my collection did not go missing. I had a lot of collectors in 1973-74.Traded something like 6 Guy Lafleur rookie cards for a Bobby Orr. Looked really good. I still had a bunch of Guy's rookie cards and Pereault rookie cards. Big fan of the French Connection. I had a couple cards from the 60's and never knew the value. Was quite a while ago I had seen Guy's cards go for more than 175.00. More than 25 years ago.@@Roskismummo

Daigle was a major talent he just lost his passion for hockey pretty early on which is a shame..

What makes the real difference is the Patrick Roy trade to Colorado ? With Roy in the net all the defensive problem where gone away ! Avs got enough Offensive talent in their team with Sakic and Forsberg. Also the favor the bruins did to Ray Bourque. Help too. It's not fun for the Québec Nordiques fans altrought. they lost their NHL teams even if the support a mediocre team for years but when they sold their team anyway for 75 M$ USD to Comcast in Colorado. A new team in Québec city is now around 1 000 M$ USD. They should have keep it when they have it but Marcel Aubut decide to sell it instead late the first salary cap happened. liminiting the expense of club which we had help to Québec Nordiques to survive. IMHO , The only chance the Québec Nordiques has to go back in the NHL is to do the same thing they did to get a team in the NHL. i.e. Start a new league outside the NHL grow the league let the NHL Buy the league and gets the team in the league to join the NHL.

He helped Quebec first of all...that led up to Avs Transition on winning the Stanley Cup winner

Too bad that didn’t happen

LOL now he's the number one all time biggest flop

​@@tokertalk9648327 pts in 616 nhl games. Hes FAR from the biggest flop bud maybe he didnt live up to the hype but his career was still better than plenty of other#1s

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​@@tokertalk9648His best seasons prevent even that. Fogerty and Wickenheiser got him beat along with Pjarvie.

i think your wrong, look at the way they explained chris phillips importance, its right on point

I mean he was going on about Bryan Berards offensive numbers and that season he had a plus minus of minus 24, that is not good

​@alexwinfield9540 plus minus is not the be all end all either.

It's still a waste of draft position if you pick very early defenceman who can't score points. It needs to be atleast Chris Pronger level offence to be good first overall pick.

The hype behind him was insane leading up to the draft and the summer before the next season kicked off. His rookie card was being hyped up like Ken Griffey jr.

@JimmyChamberlinIsGod he was the next big thing !!! I went to his number retirement and took pictures with him! He is such a nice guy! Nowadays 50 points or more in a rookie season people are amazed ! But with him fans were never satisfied!

@@RealMaxoou262 They were expecting Moginly or Bure numbers from him in his rookie season but Ottawa didn't have much of a supporting cast, and being the next big thing puts a target on your back for cheap shots. Put 2 solid stars with him and his career would have been entirely different.

i think his son is on the team now

y'etais bon, mais c'etait pas Mario Lemieux ou Sergei Fedorov. Mais solide a son peak Alex Daigle. RICO FATA a eu un peak moins long que Daigle, ou les 4 jours ou Vladimir Malakhov a donné 100% de son coeur... Calisse qy'avait pas de coeur mais tout le talent Malakhov. Daigle avait 90% de coeur mais l'Effort rendu au bout fut tough je pense. A son peak une légende ! J'imagine pas dans les junior! Devait dominer comme Michel Goulet, Gilbert Perreault, Bossy pis Ti-Guy

I watched a video recently with lindros stating it was personal to the owner and not against anyone else. I always wondered what happened but guesses it was some.form of perversion..

Stefan and Daigle?

@@GooBanana Lindros and Thornton

@@father042 ...it was a joke...

His 1st year with NYR he was still an all star and deservedly so. When was the Doig fight? 02-03?

It seems like he had the skill just lost the love and drive to play

ouch... any Pat Falloon cards left ? Asking for a friend

1994 was great and had tons of deep draft picks, you did not even mention Elias

I tried to stick with the 5-6 best players of each year!@@father042

WHAT Todd Bertuzzi > Saku Koivu dude I'm a quebecois and fan of Koivu to the bone but Bertuzzi is just behind Kariya. As Much a I respect Thibault. BERTUZZI was a presence. Did you watch the NHL then or do you go by stats ? On the ICE everybody will tell you : BERTUZZI > Arnott >> Koivu. Sadly. But Koivu in potential was amazing. Like Kariya.

I'm a Red Wings fan... and LECAVALIER is bigger than Datsyuk dude... WTF... Datsyuk ain't Yzerman or Fedorov. Red Wings through and through from 1993 to now they are my heart and soul. I lived the stanley cups. Lecavalier trumps Pavel Datsyuk. He had his fall ... but health was also a problem at times. He had Martin St-Louis? Datsyuk had Lidstrom and his great teamates alongside him... don't let stats tell a story that the game tells differently. Datsyuk is amazing but a lil tad behind Vincent. My pet peeve point = Lecavalier broke the 100 points mark.

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd -Vincent Lecavalier was the big shot in the early years, but in the very long run Pavel Datsyuk would prove he was overall a more gifted tallent and a fine leader as well on the ice. He had a deep skill set for both offensive and defensive gameplay and always worked hard. Or how he was very loyal to his native Russia in international competition and thanks to that have won the prestigue Triple Gold Club achivement with; - 2 NHL Stanley Cups, - a IIHF World Championship gold medal + 1 silver & 2 bronze medals, - Olympic gold medal. - 1 KHL Gagarin Cup - Including having competed in 7 WC tournaments, 5 OG tournaments & 2 World Cup tournaments + 14 NHL seasons, 6 KHL seasons & 4 RSL seasons = 24 years + of professional hockey. And his awards list is most impressive: - 4x Lady Byng Memorial Trophy - 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009. - 3x Frank J. Selke Trophy - 2008, 2009 & 2010. - 1x NHL Plus-Minus Award - 2008. - 2010-11 NHL Players Poll: Hardest to Take the Puck Off of + Cleanest Player. - 2011-12 NHL Players Poll: Smartest Player + Most Difficult to Play Against + Hardest to Take the Puck From + Most Difficult to Stop + Cleanest Player + Toughest Forward to Play Against. - 2x Kharlamov Trophy - 2011, 2013: Voted Best Russian NHL Player by Russian NHL Players - Selected as one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players ever (2017). Datsyuk was literally a gem among rocks when discovered and due to how he was often disregarded by higher-ups, it pushed him to become better and more determed. In short term Cavalier was better, but in the long run and much more overall Datsyuk was just much deeper and a much better player to build a team with.

And he was wrong . we know chris pronger way more than him. Paul Kariya is 20x the legend

rather : amazing how many NOT #1 become legends. JAROMIR JAGR (#5)!!!! Dominik Hasek (199) ! Brian Rafalski! (undrafted) (free agent at 25 yo I think... he could ALMOST not compete for the calder If I'm not wrong cuz there was the Sergei Makarov rule - no player above age 26 could be counted as a calder candidate after the 30-some Makarov won the Calder.)

Zbigniew Rachwalski & Zbigniew Czarn are godsent hockey players for hockey scrabbles!

Think of POUL POPIEL, for PuckDoku ! He was a little known player. Me and my best friend could be the only two NHL fans who know about him before I told you. Don't know if anyone read the NHL total hockey entries and remembers him

he is when you talk career points including playoff

Vinny spent his first 6 years in the deadest part of the dead puck era… and his prime ended pretty early. Still got close to 1000.

the peak of that Yashin era was good. They had such potential but like in modern times it's a flash in the pan... MARIAN HOSSA. He demonstrated he was one of the best players of his era, like Jarome Iginla , Joe Thornton, Sergei Samsonov, Alex Kovalev...

Jaromir Jagr #5 in 1990 vs Owen Nolan who could have went and won the cup with Mario Lemieux...

Such an awful draft that year. The Sedin's were the only talent in that draft.

Chris Niel ? Retired number ? Who was this again? A 1990s NHL player ? I was brathing hockey from 1995 to 2002 and don'T really remember him as "retiring his number" type. Will be happy to learn!!! (hockey hobby-historian here)

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd, He played just over 1,000 games with Ottawa from the 2001-2002 season to the 2016-2017. He played, mostly, on Ottawa's 3rd line. He was named alternate captain in 2013-2014... however, he's best known for being an enforcer. In his 1,026 games he only managed to record 2,522 PIM... :D His number was retired for a combination of 2 reasons... 1. He was a crowd favourite. (Must please the fans) 2. His leadership, and dedication to the team and to hockey in general. They wanted him to be officially recognized for his part, despite never going to be even considered to be a HOF player.

OK! Nice! some enforcers do merit such recognition when they are franchise players. @@aralornwolf3140 Tie Domi in Toronto. Dave Tiger Williams in Vancouver. And IMO : Georges Laraque with Edmonton. The greatest enforcer in NHL history is Laraque. Above Probert, above Chris Nilan and all others.

you mean.. Fat Balloon?

Daigle had 327 point in 616 games. He was just over a point per 2 games. You can name 5#1s that have had less of an NHL career than him

Pat Falloon mate... WAYYYYYYYYY bigger fail. Falloon was almost tied with Lindros in draft expectations ... moreso like a Shane Wright vs Slafkovsky connundrum

Stefan eventually became a pretty good two way player. He was good defensively.

Mario Lemieux : first presence on the ice after being drafted, big time NHL = SCORES. 1st play on the ice of the game , 1st game of the season. Mario Lemieux made that record. In the NHL it's not like getting a basket in the NBA. It's like Michael Jordan getting "HE'S ON FIRE" boost from 3 consecutive basket at the start of his first game in career. (i bet it didn't happen)