Quote:
Originally Posted by Buff
Furthermore, I checked this out. Only 16 1st over-all draft picks have even won the Stanley Cup.
Plasse (68)
Houle (69)
Lafleur (71)
Potvin (73)
Green (76)
Smith (78)
Ramage (79)
Lemieux (84)
Murphy (86)
Modano (88)
Lecavalier (98)
Fleury (03)
Ovechkin (04)
Crosby (05)
Kane (07)
Stamkos (08)
Edit: I completely missed Michel Plasse, Rejean Houle, Rick Green, Bobby Smith and Rob Ramage.
|
I'm pretty sure that every team to win a cup in the cap era has had top 3 pick on their roster at the time, and also picked top 2 at some point in the previous 15 years (not always the same player at the end though...Stl picked E Johnson 1OA, Bouwmeester 3OA was on their roster for the cup).
Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Drawing conclusions from tiny-sample stats like these...
ridiculous
|
Arguably the only samples that really matter. At least, the samples that should matter the most. Perhaps some of these commonalities among cup-winning teams are not actually just coincidental?