The NHL's annual entry draft is the lifeblood of the league's member teams. It's a chance for clubs to restock their systems with good, young, cost-controlled players and to add the prospects who will support and perhaps eventually supplant the current stars of those teams.
First-round picks, especially early first-round picks, come with the highest level of expectation. Any selection is an opportunity for a team to help itself; the early picks in particular represent extraordinary opportunities to find talent. When it works, the players selected can ultimately end up leading their teams to the Stanley Cup.
However, the magnitude of that opportunity also means that when a team misses with an early pick, the results can be devastating. When a team struggles for years at a time, often the reasons can be traced back to the draft, where instead of landing a franchise cornerstone, it landed a bit player and at times not even that.
Who were the biggest misses of the last 10 years? To answer that question, we looked at each player's professional career, the quality of his draft year and, of course, how high he was selected. Read on to see what we ...
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Ranking the Biggest Busts in the NHL Draft of the Past 10 Years
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