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Originally Posted by truck

It is very likely that a couple of these guys will never play 150 games in the NHL.

Previous years that featured a ton of D men drafted early.

1996:

1 Ottawa Senators Chris Phillips 1025 GP 256 P
2 San Jose Sharks Andrei Zyuzin 496 GP 120 P
5 Dallas Stars Ric Jackman 231 GP 77 P
6 Edmonton Oilers Boyd Devereaux 627 GP 179 P
8 Boston Bruins Johnathan Aitken 44 GP 1 P
9 Anaheim Ducks Ruslan Salei 917 GP 204 P
10 New Jersey Devils Lance Ward 209 GP 16 P
11 Phoenix Coyotes Dan Focht 82 GP 8 P
13 Calgary Flames Derek Morris 1005 GP 396 P

Also:
http://www.hockey-reference.com/draf...987_entry.html

http://www.hockey-reference.com/draf...989_entry.html

http://www.hockey-reference.com/draf...992_entry.html

http://www.hockey-reference.com/draf...995_entry.html

http://www.hockey-reference.com/draf...996_entry.html

http://www.hockey-reference.com/draf...002_entry.html

http://www.hockey-reference.com/draf...007_entry.html

http://www.hockey-reference.com/draf...008_entry.html

I guess what I am trying to say is... Lets see him make and play in the bigs before we compare him to All-stars.

Yes he has some desirable skill, but so do all of these kids, and a couple of them are going to be complete busts.


Also, Brian Campbell is dang good hockey player. I would be over the moon to get that kind of player 9th overall.

Wow that's not an attractive list......let's this crop of D men is somewhere between 1995 and 2009 as draft success