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Huntingwhale · 05-20-2015, 06:48 PM

That '03 draft will go down as one of the best, if not the best in history when it's all said and done. Just going thru that list in the 1st round, there is really only 1 ''bust'' in Jessiman. Even guys like Pouliot and Nilsson managed to play a couple hundred games each.

Then you move onto round 2. Guys like Loui Erikkson, Klein, Bergeron, Carle, Weber, Crombeen and even Patrick O'sullivan.

3rd round has guys like Lapierre, Backes, Howard, Fraser, Carcille, MacArthur, Picard.

Then the next rounds you have guys like Hejda, Bisonette, Quincy, Stempniak, Mitchell, Richardson, Pavelski. And the list goes on and on. Everyone should click the OP's link and bask in the glory.

Just a sick, sick draft. There might even be a couple HOF guys sprinkled among that list. Hard to fault the Phaneuf pick. At one point if you took out Crosby and Ovechkin, he was the best young player in the league. There were even threads on CP & HF about how we could finally stop the discussion of Phaneuf vs Weber because Phaneuf > Weber.

I hope 10 years from now we can look at the 2013 draft in the same light.

05-20-2015, 06:48 PM	#11
Huntingwhale Franchise Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Exp:	That '03 draft will go down as one of the best, if not the best in history when it's all said and done. Just going thru that list in the 1st round, there is really only 1 ''bust'' in Jessiman. Even guys like Pouliot and Nilsson managed to play a couple hundred games each. Then you move onto round 2. Guys like Loui Erikkson, Klein, Bergeron, Carle, Weber, Crombeen and even Patrick O'sullivan. 3rd round has guys like Lapierre, Backes, Howard, Fraser, Carcille, MacArthur, Picard. Then the next rounds you have guys like Hejda, Bisonette, Quincy, Stempniak, Mitchell, Richardson, Pavelski. And the list goes on and on. Everyone should click the OP's link and bask in the glory. Just a sick, sick draft. There might even be a couple HOF guys sprinkled among that list. Hard to fault the Phaneuf pick. At one point if you took out Crosby and Ovechkin, he was the best young player in the league. There were even threads on CP & HF about how we could finally stop the discussion of Phaneuf vs Weber because Phaneuf > Weber. I hope 10 years from now we can look at the 2013 draft in the same light.