Were we ever close to landing Mario?

[tnq]

Hasek was picked on 83 :p

[Duster]

Originally Posted by Darz

I remember the '84 draft quite well. It was the second ever NHL draft I watched, first being '83.

Like Rather Gingerly 1 said the habs made a move with Hartford to try and secure the #1 pick, something Sam Pollack also tried with the '80 draft (which would of been Gretzky's draft year) to secure Gretzky, instead of Doug Wickenhieser.

Supposablely Serge Savard made a huge offer to the pens before draft day to try and get the #1 pick, but Pittsburgh said they would not trade the pick for ANYTHING, so......

I remember that draft. It was pretty exciting. Savard's best draft ever IMO. He supposedly made a huge offer for the No 1 pick but apparently Pittsburgh came back with impossible demands. The whole fate of the franchise depended on the pick and Lemieux was clearly the saviour.

The look on Svoboda's face when he was introduced to the media was priceless. He looked terrified...lol

[English Hab]

Originally Posted by Moumni_Bachir

Who did we pick?

(1) Petr Svboda 5th
(1) Shayne Corson 8th
(2) stephane Richer 29th
(3) Patrick Roy 51st
(3) Graeme Bonr 54th
(4) Lee Brodeur 65th
(5) Gerald Johannson 95th
(6) Jim Nesich 116th
(7) Scott MacTavish 137th
(8) Brad McCaughey 158th
(9) Eric Demers 179th
(10) Ron Annear 199th
(11) Dave Tanner 220th
(12) Troy Crosby 240th

there you go....

[Darz]

Originally Posted by Duster

The look on Svoboda's face when he was introduced to the media was priceless. He looked terrified...lol

Do you recall the talk that supposablely the Bruins were set to select Svoboda with their first pick, or they were trying to move up to select him, on the thought that they could get him out of Czech., something other teams supposablely didn't know, not realizing that Montreal had already gotten him into the country.

I'm a little hazzy on the details of how that all went down. Do ya recall that????

[Dripper]

Originally Posted by Moumni_Bachir

Hahahaha, classique mais génial!

By the way, Richer, Roy and Corson aren't bad.

Svoboda isn't bad either, if i'm not mistaken he's the Czech-born player who played the most NHL games and the Czech-born D-man with the most points. Althought that doesn't mean he's good, it certainly means he's not bad!