I've been meaning to do this for quite a while now, just like I've been meaning to write a book on why being a leaf fan is a small step down from slavery. Fortunately for me and other leaf fans Burky is now on board and thing are inevitably looking up. I still think it's important to look back at the legecy of inepness esspecially when it came to everything but specifically when it came to the draft.
this the leaf draft histoy since my birth in 1981, untill 2001. After each leaf pick and where that pick was taken, i've made a small list of players that came after the leaf pick in the draft.
if your a leaf fan i would suggest that you make time to read this when no one else is around to hear or see you. i cried from 1984 on.
1981 - 1st RD 6th pick - Jim Benning
grant fehr, al macinnis, chris chelios, mike vernon, john vambiesbrouck
1982 - 1st rd 3rd pick - Gary Nylund
scott stevens, phil housely, dave andreychuk, ron hextal, tony granato, doug gilmour
1983 - 1st rd 7th pick - russ courtnall
cam neely, kevin steveens, gary galley, dominc hasek, rick tocchet, tretiak
1984 - 1st rd 4th pick - al iafrate
shane corson, gary roberts, patrick roy, brett hull, luc robitaille, stephane richer
LET IT OUT FRIENDS
1985 - 1st rd 1st pick - wendal clark
igor larianov, and bill ranford
someone i know crapped on this pick the other day, and i rememeber trying to talk myslef into this being a bad pick but i couldn't. Wendel was our Neely, without the smooth hands. I guess Wendal was our Wendal. We hung up his jersey for god sakes, the mans a beekon of light in a sea of darkness.
1985 - 1st rd 6th pick - Vincent Damphousse
brian leetch, adam graves, teppo numminen, darren turcotte
1987 - 1st rd 7th pick - luke richardson
joe sakic, john leclair, eric desjardins, matthieu shnieder
1988 - 1st rd 6th pick - scott pearson
jeremy roenick, rod brindamour, teemu selanne, mark recchi, tony amont, mogilny, fleury
1989 - 1st rd 3rd pick - scott thorton
bill guerin, bobby holik, nic lindstrom, sergi federov, pavel bure, donald audette
1990 - 1st rd 10th pick - drake berehowsky
peter bondra, robert lang, sergi zubov, doug weight, kieth tkachuk, martin brodeur
1991 - leafs traded both 1st and second round picks
Scott Niedermayer, forsburg, glen murrey, zigmund palffy, marcus nasland, brain rolston
with the leafs first rounder NJ got Niedermayer
1992 - 1st rd 8th pick - brandon convery
sergi gonchar, martin straka, valerie bure, adrian aucoin, khabibulin, jere lehtinen
1993 - 1st rd 12th pick - kenny jonsson
todd bertuzzi, saku koivu, eric daze, miroslav satan, pavel demitra
1994 - 1st rd 16th pick - eric fichaud
jose thedore, patrick elias, sheldon souray, danial alfredsson, chris drury, hejhuk, turco, nabokov
1995 - 1st rd 15th pick - jeff ware
peter sykora, marc savard, miikka kiprusoff, filip kuba
1996 - 2nd rd 36th pick - marek posmyk
zdeno chara, tom poti, mark parrish, pavel kubina
NOTE: The leafs did pick Kaberle with the 208th pick
1997 - traded 1st rd 4th pick to NYI who picked Luongo
marian hossa, brian campbell
1998 - 1st rd 10th pick - nic antropov
alex tanquy, simon gagne, scott gomez, andre markov, cheecho, horcoff, datsyuk went #171
1999 - 1st rd 24th pick - luca cereda
martin havlat, mike comerie, mike commodore, ryan miller, zetterburg went # 210
2000 - 1st rd 24th pick - brad boyes
justin williams, lubomir visnovsky, henrik lundqvist
2001 - 1st rd 17th pick - carlo colaiacovo
johnny oduya, derek booguard, kevin bieksa, ray emery, mike cammalleri, jason pominville
after 2001 it's alot harder to gauge whose done well in the draft. some of these dudes who went in the first round a couple years ago are still trying to hash it out in the AHL.
some names that we did miss ove the past 6 years...
Shes weber, ryan kesler, mike richards, corey perry, mike green, milan lucic, andrew cogliano, peal stastney, steve mason
since 2001 we've taken tukka rask, and jiri tlusjy