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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I was trying to think of highly touted Junior guys who fell in their Draft year but managed to persevere and end up with a decent NHL Career.
Daniel Cleary is a guy who came to mind as a 15 year old who played in the OHL a year early and was thought to be the next great thing. But by his draft year he had slid a bit where he was drafted 13th, than he bounced around the league a bit although he was playing at a young age until finding a role with the Red Wings. He ended up playing 938 career NHL Regular Season games, but from the 15 year old hot shot that would ultimately prove to be less than projected at that time, but still a good NHL career. Patrick O'Sullivan sort of was a guy who went later and managed to make it to to the league albeit with some troubling circumstances that later surfaced.
Kylington was a player where I remember hearing top 5 type pick before his draft year and eventually was the last pick of round 2. Here it is 6 years after that draft where he's starting to find a role on a team in the league. Can't think of too many other guys who have managed to stay at it that long after that type of fall in the draft and salvage something.
Angelo Esposito is a guy who was hyped before his draft year, slid and never amounted to much.
Can't think of too many others off hand but I'm sure there are a lot, and more of them tend to go the Esposito path.
So you really have to give Kylington his due for grinding it out the way he has for this long.
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Fowler was a dropper that has turned out to be a steal.
Chychurn may be another example.
Debrincat was thought to be a first rounder who dropped to the 2nd.
More recently Arthur Kaliyev may turn out to be an example.