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Old 04-10-2018, 02:47 PM   #366
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda View Post
Alexi Yashin played 12 years in the NHL, but is still considered one of the biggest busts of all time. Any time you draft in the top 5 and can only walk away with a "bottom 6 energy guy" at best, it's a failure
I'm with dammage on this one. Busts are guys that didn't turn into solid NHLers. Yashin was not a bust. Guys like Tkaczuk and Fata were. Scott Scissons, Brendl, Svitov, Chistov.

You could call a guy like Yashin a disappointment given his draft position but he's not a pure bust. I guess you could argue there's a continuum but then we'd have to start defining that.

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