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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I really hate saying a GM blew it drafting a guy like Krahn because prior to injury issues derailed his development, he actually looked like pretty good pick. His numbers with LV in the ECHL were great, his numbers with Lowell were fantastic, he struggled while on loan to San Antonio. When we finally got our own AHL club again, Krahn was very good, he was a top goalie in the AHL in his first year as a starter (3rd in GAA, 10th in Sv%), putting up slightly better numbers than this kid with the Iowa Stars, Mike Smith.
Then the injuries screwed everything up.
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It's also worth noting that there wasn't much drafted around him.
next 5 picks:
Mikhail Yakubov: 53 games
Pavel Vorobiev: 57 games
Alex Smirnov: 52 games
Ron Hansey: 1132 games
Vaclav Nedorost: 99 games
Artem Kryukov: 0 games
Marcel Hossa: 237 games
Alexei Mikhnov: 2 games
Even the two picks before:
7: Lars Jonsson: 8 games
8: Nikit Alexeev: 159 games
So from picks 8 - 17 basically there was one NHLer selected in Hainsey.
That's a brutal draft. Awful. So even if he had not picked Krahn, it was unlikely that he would have picked someone meaningful.