Looking Back at the Canadiens’ Draft: 2000-2009
Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Washington are all Stanley Cup favorites this year. What do these teams have in common? How did they build their successful teams? Through the draft, specifically through obtaining high draft picks for multiple years. Teams like New Jersey, San Jose, and Detroit, prove that a team can win consistently and still build a solid team from within. But the common thread within all these teams is that they have all drafted well.
Categories: Around the League, NHLHS Features Tags: Alex Tanguay, Alexander Perezhogin, Andrei Kostitsyn, Andrei Markov, Carey Price, Christopher Higgins, Danius Zubrus, David Fischer, Garth Murray, Jan Bulis, Jaroslav Halak, Jose Theodore, Kyle Chipchura, Louis LeBlanc, Marcel Hossa, Marian Hossa, Matt D'Agostini, Max Pacioretty, Maxim Lapierre, Mike Komisarek, Richard Zednik, Ron Hainsey, Ryan McDonagh, Ryan O'Byrne, Saku Koivu, Scott Gomez, Sergei Kostitsyn, Tomas Plekanec, Trevor Linden, Vincent Damphousse
Restoring the Rosters: Colorado Avalanche
Based on Matthew Pouliot’s series on Circling the Bases, I have decided restore the rosters for every NHL team. Like Pouliot, I have established some ground rules for my selections.
- Each team contains players they originally drafted or signed before any other NHL team. This includes players drafted and not signed, as well as European free agents coming over at an older age.
- I have chosen to leave retired players off the list, and lean toward players in the AHL rather than those deported (KHL, SEL, DEL, etc.).
Essentially I am choosing the best available players for a team to succeed in the current NHL season. All 30 teams will be covered, with grades assigned to forwards, defense and goaltending. After all 30 articles are written, they will be ranked in order. This series’ intent is to reward or shame NHL scouts.
Categories: 30 Team Series, NHLHS Features, Restoring the Rosters Tags: Adam Foote, Alex Tanguay, Brandon Yip, Chris Drury, Chris Stewart, Curtis Joseph, Dominik Hasek, Jean-Michael Liles, Jeff Finger, Joe Sakic, Kyle Cumiskey, Martin Skoula, Mats Sundin, Matt Duchene, Milan Hejduk, Owen Nolan, Paul Stastny, Peter Budaj, Radim Vrbata, Robyn Regehr, Ryan O'Reilly, Samuel Pahlsson, Tim Thomas, Tom Gilbert, Tyler Weiman, Wojtek Wolski
