As the Senators and their fans get ready for the NHL draft tonight, I thought it might be an intersting exercise to check and see what the number 6 position has historically delivered to teams. I thought the last 20 years would be a good number, mostly because it would probably start becoming tedious at 20.
There are some real lemons in here. There are also some decent players. Interesting that the pick that would become the best player - Peter Forsberg - was selected almost 20 years ago to the day.
2010 Brett Connolly
2009 Oliver Ekman larsson
2008 Nikita Filotov
2007 Sam Gagner
2006 Derick Brassard
2005 Gilbert Brule
2004 Al Montoya
2003 Milan Michalek
2002 Scottie Upshall
2001 Mikko Koivu
2000 Scott Hartnell
1999 Brian Finley
1998 Rico Fata
1997 Daniel Tkachuk
1998 Boyd Deveraux
1995 Steve Kelly
1994 Ryan Smyth
1993 Viktor Kozlov
1992 Cory Stillman
1991 Peter Forsberg
The moral of the story: You're probably not getting a superstar at six. After that, you're only 50/50 on getting a player you'd describe as good or useful.
