Galchenyuk Cut from Avalanche Tryout

[odjickfan]

They guy had decent skills, lt looks like a problem with work ethics and negative people taking a lot place around him.

[mooneyes]

The 1999 draft was probably worse overall, but the Sedins went 2 & 3 (so certainly not a bad "top 3" that year). Aside from them, the only players who were more than "depth pieces" taken that year were Craig Anderson in the 3rd round to Calgary, Ryan Miller in the 5th round to Buffalo, and Henrik Zetterberg in the 7th round to Detroit.

It was a very different era, but the 1967 NHL draft definitely has the worst top 3 picks. Combined, they have as many NHL games played as I do.

1974 (Greg Jolly to WSH, Wilf Paiment to Kansas City, Rick Hampton to California) I would argue is worse than the 2012 class, overall. Paiment was probably the best NHLer out of the 6 players involved.... but Yakupov was a better pick at #1 than Joly. Murray has had a better career than Hampton did (and he's still going). Paiment clearly better than Galchenyuk though.


60s and 70s were so long ago though..... 2012 definitely the worst top 3 in modern history.

No love for Pavel Brendl? lol

Apparently he was incredibly unfit, and had a great love for eating, especially hotdogs by the half dozen. His first day at Rangers camp he looked so awful and slow, they were hoping it was because he had the flu. Somehow the Rangers ended up trading him for Eric Lindros, so that's something.