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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
1999 - 1 player who played more than 100 games out 10 picks (this draft was particularly bad even by McPhee standards, 5 picks in the first 37)
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But that's the 1999 draft for you. It was just terrible all around for everyone but Burke and Holland.
Number 7 - Kris Beech
Other notable players in the running were Taylor Pyatt and Oleg Saprykin. Beech went pretty much exactly where everyone thought he would go. McPhee and his staff were probably weighing in on Beech and Lundmark who had fallen. At that point it's pick your poison.
His four early 2nd round picks - Sivens, Stephens, Lupaschuk and Yonkman.
Terrible names, but his other legitimate options included Sellars, Michael Ryan, Jonas Andersson, Bartovic, Semenov, Cavanaugh, Buturlin and Auld. If he was an absolutely amazing drafter he would have still had to be super lucky to come away with Commodore and Leopold.
If anything with that draft I would be looking at how he obtained the picks. I would be worried if he was giving away major assets for 2nd round picks in that draft as it would show his terrible assessment but the actually drafting was a crapshoot. Hindsight is nice but I don't think you can blame a GM for not picking Zetterberg with his 30th pick here.