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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
In the past 20 years, there's been 14 players to have over 100 goals as 22 year olds (as of Feb 1st that year). 9 of those players went first overall in their draft.
Steven Stamkos 208 - First overall - (5 seasons)
Sidney Crosby 183 - First overall - (5 seasons)
Alex Ovechkin 163 - First overall - (3 seasons)
Ilya Kovalchuk 160 - First overall -(4 seasons)
Rick Nash 116 - First overall - (4 seasons)
Evgeni Malkin 115 - Second overall - (3 seasons)
Jeff Skinner 115 - Seventh overall - (5 seasons)
Jonathan Toews 115 - Third overall - (4 seasons)
Vincent Lecavalier -114 - Fist overall - (5 seasons)
Anze Kopitar 113 - Eleventh overall - (4 seasons)
John Tavares 112 - First overall - (4 seasons)
Sean Monahan 104 - Sixth overall - (almost 4 seasons)
Patrick Kane 103 - First overall - (4 seasons)
Joe Thornton 101 - First overall - (5 seasons)
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Weird. There seems to be a few first overall picks missing from that list. Starting around 2010...
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From HFBoard oiler fan, in analyzing MacT's management:
O.K. there has been a lot of talk on whether or not MacTavish has actually done a good job for us, most fans on this board are very basic in their analysis and I feel would change their opinion entirely if the team was successful.
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