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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Pretty good draft? ####ing joke. That was an amazing draft. Burke had said that Pronger was who he thought should have gone first when the rest of the world was drooling over Alexandre "No one remembers number two" Diagle. His next pick, 70 spots later, goes on to play 700 games. He gets another 500+ game player and a goalie who plays close to 400. Take a look at the rest of the teams. Who had a better draft that year? No one.
It was also just a terrible draft. Unless you got lucky and picked Zetterberg with the 210th pick there wasn't a way to come out of that draft happy. Well except for Burke who orchestrated getting both Sedins in a franchise changing move. We can make fun of the Canucks and the Sedins as much as we want but being unbiased again that was a slaughter by Burke.
You got to look at the individual drafts, draft picks and not just the players. 2005 might not have been a great haul, but again bad draft for near everyone. Mason Raymond is one of the better players from that draft class and he couldn't even get a contract this summer. A lot of teams would have been happy to come away with "just" Ryan that year.
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As for 2005 it is pretty hard to screw up the 2nd overall pick (unless you wanted Jack Johnson, that would have been a mistake). There are still about 50 players who played at least 150 games from that draft class, so having 1 player in that group is at best below average, at the absolute best Burke was adequate in that draft.
As for 1993 pretty good is about what it was that year for him. The Islanders arguably had a better draft (getting Bertuzzi late in the first round), Bryan McCabe in the second round, Tommy Salo in the 5th round and Darren Van Impe in the 7th round. I acknowledged that that was a good year for him. He has presided over a number of drafts and has more busts than home runs.
Washington did ok with Witt, Allison and Brunette
The guy is what he is, drafts well in the top 5 and rarely finds anything outside of that range.
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