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[IPostedWhat]

Anyone? Bueller?

Unlike the NBA and NFL Drafts, the NHL Draft is more about five years down the road. Of the over 200 players selected, only a select few will make any kind of impact in the NHL in the 2010-11 season. Instead, teams are loading up on the kind of talent they think will develop into NHL players over time.

When it comes to gaining immediate impact, the teams picking near the top of the first round have a leg up, obviously. Outside of the top 10 picks, it's rare to get a player who is NHL-ready.

Last year, Colorado's Ryan O'Reilly, a second-round selection, was the only player picked outside the top 10 who played in the NHL. As we take a knee-jerk look at this year's draft, the winners are the ones who may have had the most success finding those quick-impact gems outside of the first few picks.

2010 NHL Draft: Winners & Losers -- NHL FanHouse

 

[IPostedWhat]

Fine!

O'Reilly wasn't the ony one outside the top 10 who played in the NHL. Dmitri Kulilov played 68 games for the Panthers.

Any MOD reading this can go ahead and just delete this Thread.

 

[BostonAJ]

That one was pretty tough...

I was looking for a philosophical paradox in there somewhere.

 

[IPostedWhat]

I guess if I have learned anything, is that I shouldn't make threads, and just stick to making dumb comments and fart noises.

The fart noises help me make the dumb comments.

 

[BostonAJ]

Don't self-deprecate.

But yeah, you're a farter.

 

[IPostedWhat]

Don't self-deprecate.

But yeah, you're a farter.

I self-deprecate the hell out of myself. I have the calluses to prove it.

 

[IPostedWhat]

I also got a kick out of this article talking about Kotalik. Take a look at the pic they used with the following caption to go with it:

Buffalo Sabres' Ales Kotalik (top) and Ottawa Senators' Shean Donovan fight for control of the puck during the second period of their NHL hockey game in Ottawa March 27, 2008. REUTERS

They use a pic from 2008? Nothing more recent available?

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

GIFSoup

 

[Slimpikins]

I self-deprecate the hell out of myself. I have the calluses to prove it.

I hear that will make you go blind.

 

[IPostedWhat]

I hear that will make you go blind.

I trust my eyes to Dr. Rahmani.

 

[dash]

I also got a kick out of this article talking about Kotalik. Take a look at the pic they used with the following caption to go with it:

Buffalo Sabres' Ales Kotalik (top) and Ottawa Senators' Shean Donovan fight for control of the puck during the second period of their NHL hockey game in Ottawa March 27, 2008. REUTERS

They use a pic from 2008? Nothing more recent available?

That's when I actually didn't mind Kotalik...

 

[IPostedWhat]

That's when I actually didn't mind Kotalik...

That backhand could sure score some SO goals, I'll tell you what.