What's crazy is that at ages 37 and 38, Bergeron and Pavelski are still producing at near point-per-game rates, and both weren't even in the 1st round of this draft!! Pavelski in particular just set a career high in points last year and is on pace to set a new high AGAIN this year, while Bergeron is almost a lock so far for his 12th STRAIGHT Selke finalist! Truly such gifted athletes and leaders from this draft class
Joe Pavelski is THE Definition of the Most Underrated Player of this draft. His Hockey IQ is some of the best the NHL has ever seen. Somehow he's stayed in the NHL despite being very slow, and not having any physical advantages in the Game.His IQ and his incredible hand eye coordination are a maevel even though he's 38 and still killing it just like Bergeron
Fun fact: Boyle and Dustin Brown have massive families so the kings draft party for all the rookies and families ran out of food. While they had interns run out to get bbq from a local joint, Brown and Boyle entertained everyone by doing party and magic tricks
as a Rangers fan: there was no Draft in 2003. Definitly not. Not even just Jessimen, the later rounds weren't much better. Nigel Dawes had 120ish games and everyone else combined for 8. 10 Picks that year...
That is straight impressive. You would have to actually try to draft badly to miss on 9.5 guys in this draft... statistically it should not have been possible!
As a Habs fan, this terrific pick has prevented Montreal becoming a strong club. Kostitsyn was Bob Gainey's choice, which was hired 5 weeks before draft, when owner Gillet decided to relegate André Savard as a futile assistant. This one told many years after that his choice was Jeff Carter. We had Koivu as a number one. Plekanec who were drafted in 2002. And we let the chance of drafting a bic centerman in 2003.....and were so much stupid the year after by drafting Kyle Chipchura...Jesus Christ !!! This terrible #10 overall pick incluences so much the future of the club.....and explains why Gainey had any good centerman in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, etc.....and that's why he traded McDonagh to get Scott Gomez !!! Terrific !
@@mcgiver6977 I know it's terrible. It would of been better had they drafted Jeff Carter. I know as a habs fan I did have high expectations that Kostitsyn would of been a great goalscorer and was a high end talent. He was okay, but not really not anything special.
Wow. Jeff Carter AND Mike Richards drafted by my Flyers in the first round... back when the org was competent. Now a days you trade a first for Ristolainen and pretends to be competetive while failing miserably. Take me back please...
Thank you Trevor Timmins and Bob Gainey for the swing and a miss on Andrei Kostitsyn 😢 Too the habs ignored and fired Serge Savard who wanted Getzlaf or Richards…
Trevor Timmins was the worst thing that could have happened for montreals drafting history. 18 years of Fucking up. I was so happy when he got shit canned. Talk about consistently failing for so long. It took certain scouts demanding he draft price and a few other players. Then again a broken clock is right twice a day
As an LA Kings fan I would like to think the kings for drafting Dustin Brown he had a long successful career a hockey player I watch growing up and the first player to lift a Stanley Cup for our team in 2012 goodbye Dustin Brown your Kings legend
Hey Odd Man Rush. I was actually looking at the 1999 Draft yesterday and yes, overall it was bad, but there were some useful players especially in later rounds. Even if they burned bright but quickly (Ryan Malone) or are forgotten they were from 1999 (Ryan Miller). A "Hidden Gems" video from bad drafts might be interesting.
@@johnnybeeds54 I know how good that draft is cuz I’m a bruins fan and we totally fucked that one up. The three picks following our three in a row we’re barze, chabot, Connor, and if you wanna go farther. Boeser, and konecney were also taken after. But not only the first round either second and third rounds were also just as if not even more stacked than 2003 as well guys like aho Travis dermott, Christian fisher Carlo aj greer makenzie Blackwood eric cernak Daniel sprong roope hintz Jordan greenway rasmus anderson Jeremy lauzon Vince dunn. There’s more but those are some of the non first rounders who are still kicking it in the nhl today but the first round. There’s maybe 4-5 picks that didn’t pan out and as a bruins fan we had 2 of those 5 smh. and I’d say there’s about 15-20 guys who are ELITE from the first round. And almost everyone in the first round is a top tier player.
Saw Perry and Getzlaf, Eric Fehr, and Mike Green in the AHL eastern conference championship in Hershey Pa. Game 7. Hershey game back to win in OT with Fehr’s goal. Still the best pro Hockey game I ever attended.
Interesting, I was in that age group in Sweden, and that year was not a great year for Swedish players for some reason. Dont know many that played for the National team or NHL
Incredible for everyone except... the NY Rangers. Arguably the deepest draft in the history of the league, and these guys with 3 picks in the first 3 rounds total 3 games played between them all. Probably the single worst draft any team has ever had. Seriously. Name me a worse one! Just awful. They coulda picked a name out of a hat and had a better set of picks just on pure dumb luck alone. The fact that they actually scouted these players, and intentionally took them in each of those rounds is infuriating. Picks are almost always a crap shoot. But when you look back on what became of so many of the players chosen in this draft, even taking into account non stars who simply had really nice careers, it's truly mind blowing that the Rangers missed so badly on every one of those picks. :(
Loved Boyle in Jersey. Absolute unit of a man. Also scored his 1st career hat trick on Hockey Fights Cancer night in Pittsburgh, after being cancer himself, which is just perfect
Hello hockey fans, instead of my annoying bs. Pause this video and watch THG if you don't want to go deaf and also learn something Riiiiighttt guuuuysssss
I have actually have met Ryan Getzlaf, He moved to my hometown and His son plays for my hometown peewee team as a goalie and he wears the same number as John Gibson
you don't really need to check their stats to know how deep this draft class was. just look at how many players turn out to be captains in the future. 1) Staal - Carolina 2) vanek - Buffalo (although briefly) 3) Phaneuf - Toronto 4) Brown - LA 5) Parise - NJD 6) Getzlaf - Anaheim 7) Mike Richards - Philadelphia 8) Bergeron - Boston 9) Weber - Nashville and Montreal 10) Backes - St louis 11) pavelski - San jose plus even more guys who wore A throughout their careers.
To borrow a quote from the great Phil Bourque, Marc Andre Fleury, #29 in your media guide but #1 in your hearts. We Penguins fans have had some great draft choices - and some huge busts - over the years, but MAF will go done as one of the greatest.
@@myboyfriendgonnagetyou97 I have absolutely zero issues with Sydney Crosby. The man has been everything and more to this team than was even expected prior to the 2005 draft. My comment was "MAF will go down as ONE of the greatest", not THE greatest. I don't think that can be argued against. Sydney Crosby would say exactly the same thing and any doubt about that can be dispelled by seeing the look on his and Mario Lemieux's faces when MAF was snagged by the Knights in 2017. They knew it was coming but it was a very bitter pill for that team, and particularly his road game roommate Crosby, to accept. Go Guins!
Wow I didn’t recognize Brent Burns with his teeth back in 2003. I’ve watched Mark Stuart play in Colorado College and the famous All Star player John Scott when Mich Tech played them.
@@GooseGumlizzard just looked at the 1979 draft it has a few elite players and the rest are plumber 2015 is easily the best 2003 is a close second. Matter of fact more than half of the 2015 class from round 1 and 2 have been all stars at one point. 2015 is clearly better. Besides borque gartner messier and maybe 4 or 5 other guys 1979 is high key trash. I assume ur an old timer. But 2015 is so stacked it’s not even funny this guy even missed kaprizov, aho and a few more.
I don't think there is any doubt this was the strongest draft ever, I haven't seen a "Best drafts of all time" article where this one is not at the top. Would be interesting to hear some relative stats though...in a typical draft on average how many players pan out etc.
16:10 "Now it's worth mentioning that I've only highlighted the players that suited up in at least 500 games during their NHL careers." Marc-Antoine Pouliot only played 192 games.
Kostitsyn had so much potential Habs ruin every single player they come across it's truly insane.. kostitsyn was and still is my favorite player dude had dangles and sniper barely no one could compete with ..
To say that a draft is terrible because the top 15 picks were mediocre to bad players is incorrect. 2012 draft a lot of great players, Vasi in Tampa being one of them, too many to mention here
What's crazy is that at ages 37 and 38, Bergeron and Pavelski are still producing at near point-per-game rates, and both weren't even in the 1st round of this draft!! Pavelski in particular just set a career high in points last year and is on pace to set a new high AGAIN this year, while Bergeron is almost a lock so far for his 12th STRAIGHT Selke finalist! Truly such gifted athletes and leaders from this draft class
Joe Pavelski is THE Definition of the Most Underrated Player of this draft. His Hockey IQ is some of the best the NHL has ever seen. Somehow he's stayed in the NHL despite being very slow, and not having any physical advantages in the Game.His IQ and his incredible hand eye coordination are a maevel even though he's 38 and still killing it just like Bergeron
Pavelski a hof or no?
@@aaronevans9698 yes
@@aaronevans9698 I would love for him to be, but no. He is in fact Captain Fucking America though =)
@@aaronevans9698 He'll get his jersey retired by SJ Probably, so there's that.
Byfuglien was 245th in this draft. What a filthy year for talent.
Michalek had a brother and both disappeared from the league without anyone noticing
The best player in this draft was Patrice Bergeron. Argue with a wall
Fun fact: Boyle and Dustin Brown have massive families so the kings draft party for all the rookies and families ran out of food. While they had interns run out to get bbq from a local joint, Brown and Boyle entertained everyone by doing party and magic tricks
An interesting note is the Ducks had Getzlaf, Perry, Kesler and Eaves on their roster between 2017-2018
Except Eaves was basically done the year before that.
Except Eaves was basically done the year before that.
Trying out to win the 2003-2004 Stanley Cup.
Mike Richards is not talked about enough... 🥺
Kings don’t win their 2012 cup without him.
Perry has won every thing you can win in hockey memorial cup too Crosby doesn't have it
as a Rangers fan: there was no Draft in 2003. Definitly not. Not even just Jessimen, the later rounds weren't much better.
Nigel Dawes had 120ish games and everyone else combined for 8. 10 Picks that year...
That is straight impressive. You would have to actually try to draft badly to miss on 9.5 guys in this draft... statistically it should not have been possible!
How could you forget about the #10 overall pick in Andrei Kostitsyn?
As a Habs fan, this terrific pick has prevented Montreal becoming a strong club. Kostitsyn was Bob Gainey's choice, which was hired 5 weeks before draft, when owner Gillet decided to relegate André Savard as a futile assistant. This one told many years after that his choice was Jeff Carter.
We had Koivu as a number one. Plekanec who were drafted in 2002. And we let the chance of drafting a bic centerman in 2003.....and were so much stupid the year after by drafting Kyle Chipchura...Jesus Christ !!!
This terrible #10 overall pick incluences so much the future of the club.....and explains why Gainey had any good centerman in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, etc.....and that's why he traded McDonagh to get Scott Gomez !!!
Terrific !
@@mcgiver6977 I know it's terrible. It would of been better had they drafted Jeff Carter. I know as a habs fan I did have high expectations that Kostitsyn would of been a great goalscorer and was a high end talent. He was okay, but not really not anything special.
Hot take: sports overall in 03 may have had the best athletes to play the games we have today
facts the 03 nba draft was insane too.
"And now the top 10 picks" drumroll.... "Number 9!!!!"
Wow. Jeff Carter AND Mike Richards drafted by my Flyers in the first round... back when the org was competent. Now a days you trade a first for Ristolainen and pretends to be competetive while failing miserably. Take me back please...
Gotta love Joe Pavelski! An old-for-the-draft seventh round pick who flew past 1,000 games and is now on the doorstep of 1,000 points! What a legend!
I like how this is your most successful video in 9 months
Me too! 😂
As a Rangers fan, I hate this draft.
Brushes over Bergy after going in depth on guys that should be allowed to step on his shadow in a parking lot.
Thank you Trevor Timmins and Bob Gainey for the swing and a miss on Andrei Kostitsyn 😢 Too the habs ignored and fired Serge Savard who wanted Getzlaf or Richards…
André Savard.....who wanted also Jeff Carter...
Kostitsyn was a beast idk what you're talking about the media ruined him
Trevor Timmins was the worst thing that could have happened for montreals drafting history. 18 years of Fucking up. I was so happy when he got shit canned. Talk about consistently failing for so long. It took certain scouts demanding he draft price and a few other players. Then again a broken clock is right twice a day
@@OrphanTraveler97 the cocaine ruined him
Richard’s was the coke
As an LA Kings fan I would like to think the kings for drafting Dustin Brown he had a long successful career a hockey player I watch growing up and the first player to lift a Stanley Cup for our team in 2012 goodbye Dustin Brown your Kings legend
My goat
Such a stacked draft and yet one of the 5 best players was 205th
Pavelski is great but top 5 is a stretch.
@@Nacnud92 I would only place Bergeron, Staal, Getzlaf and Fleury above him, maybe Weber and Suter as well
You know a draft was good if even I who started watching the NHL approximately 15 years after this still know, respect and love most of those guys
They were the kids of my age, the 1985 births, I am proud of them!
Brian Elliott was pick 291, 2nd to last. 500+ GP 2.53 GAA and .910 S%
Oh one more thing Still Playing!!!
This or 2015 the most stacked ever IMO
I remember the Wings not having a first rounder this year :(
Hey Odd Man Rush. I was actually looking at the 1999 Draft yesterday and yes, overall it was bad, but there were some useful players especially in later rounds. Even if they burned bright but quickly (Ryan Malone) or are forgotten they were from 1999 (Ryan Miller). A "Hidden Gems" video from bad drafts might be interesting.
Jimmy Howard also picked in the second round of this draft
0:30 you can't have a "plethora" of prospects. Plethora means too much of something. A bad thing. The word you want is "abundance".
So much hair gel
Some great goalies in the later rounds as well: Corey Crawford and Jimmy Howard in round 2, and Jaro Halak with Brian Elliott in round 9
Gotta do this for the 2015 draft it was even better than 2003
I gotta be honest I thought 2015 better than this one would be a hot take. So I went back and looked….. Holy Shit, 2015 is absolutely LOADED
@@johnnybeeds54 I know how good that draft is cuz I’m a bruins fan and we totally fucked that one up. The three picks following our three in a row we’re barze, chabot, Connor, and if you wanna go farther. Boeser, and konecney were also taken after. But not only the first round either second and third rounds were also just as if not even more stacked than 2003 as well guys like aho Travis dermott, Christian fisher Carlo aj greer makenzie Blackwood eric cernak Daniel sprong roope hintz Jordan greenway rasmus anderson Jeremy lauzon Vince dunn. There’s more but those are some of the non first rounders who are still kicking it in the nhl today but the first round. There’s maybe 4-5 picks that didn’t pan out and as a bruins fan we had 2 of those 5 smh. and I’d say there’s about 15-20 guys who are ELITE from the first round. And almost everyone in the first round is a top tier player.
Saw Perry and Getzlaf, Eric Fehr, and Mike Green in the AHL eastern conference championship in Hershey Pa. Game 7. Hershey game back to win in OT with Fehr’s goal. Still the best pro Hockey game I ever attended.
Interesting, I was in that age group in Sweden, and that year was not a great year for Swedish players for some reason. Dont know many that played for the National team or NHL
"If you asked me"
"If you asked me"
"If you asked me"
"If you asked me"
"If you asked me"
Didn't ask + Ratio
Incredible for everyone except... the NY Rangers. Arguably the deepest draft in the history of the league, and these guys with 3 picks in the first 3 rounds total 3 games played between them all. Probably the single worst draft any team has ever had. Seriously. Name me a worse one! Just awful. They coulda picked a name out of a hat and had a better set of picks just on pure dumb luck alone. The fact that they actually scouted these players, and intentionally took them in each of those rounds is infuriating. Picks are almost always a crap shoot. But when you look back on what became of so many of the players chosen in this draft, even taking into account non stars who simply had really nice careers, it's truly mind blowing that the Rangers missed so badly on every one of those picks. :(
Loved Boyle in Jersey. Absolute unit of a man. Also scored his 1st career hat trick on Hockey Fights Cancer night in Pittsburgh, after being cancer himself, which is just perfect
That’s badass af
Hello hockey fans, instead of my annoying bs. Pause this video and watch THG if you don't want to go deaf and also learn something
Riiiiighttt guuuuysssss
Bergeron is the best player in that whole draft, with Pavelski second, in my opinion of course
Man you forget Bergeron was a second rounder... I still almost spit out my drink while listening to the "second rounders list".
Best draft, worst hair styles 😂
Man I forgot Bergeron was a second round pick. What a steal.
In my opinion he's the best player of that draft.
And the biggest bust was of course taken by the NY Rangers. Hugh Jessiman
Hawks also got Corey Crawford that year at 52.
This was a special generation of hockey players, the like we will most likely never see again.
What’s crazy is that there were/franchises so inept that they bungled this draft.
Tried taking a shot every time he said “the show”. Passed out two minutes in. Had to come back a finish the video.
All these dude played soooooo long
2015 is good too
Bergeron is a god
Could you do a retrospective of the 1989 NHL Entry draft? I find the amount of Players from Soviet block to be amazing.
I have actually have met Ryan Getzlaf, He moved to my hometown and His son plays for my hometown peewee team as a goalie and he wears the same number as John Gibson
My dad has a reference Ryan Getzlaf son at a soccer game he’s a goaltender
Wow amazing
The best draft ever
Ryan Kesler was a beast for the Canucks. What a draft indeed! Everyone (almost) got a top player for their team.
It's to bad Kesler was a shitty a person ... no hockey player is more hated by service industry people in van
you don't really need to check their stats to know how deep this draft class was. just look at how many players turn out to be captains in the future.
1) Staal - Carolina
2) vanek - Buffalo (although briefly)
3) Phaneuf - Toronto
4) Brown - LA
5) Parise - NJD
6) Getzlaf - Anaheim
7) Mike Richards - Philadelphia
8) Bergeron - Boston
9) Weber - Nashville and Montreal
10) Backes - St louis
11) pavelski - San jose
plus even more guys who wore A throughout their careers.
Rangers fans: No it wasn't shut up.
To borrow a quote from the great Phil Bourque, Marc Andre Fleury, #29 in your media guide but #1 in your hearts. We Penguins fans have had some great draft choices - and some huge busts - over the years, but MAF will go done as one of the greatest.
Crosby is better
@@myboyfriendgonnagetyou97 I have absolutely zero issues with Sydney Crosby. The man has been everything and more to this team than was even expected prior to the 2005 draft. My comment was "MAF will go down as ONE of the greatest", not THE greatest. I don't think that can be argued against. Sydney Crosby would say exactly the same thing and any doubt about that can be dispelled by seeing the look on his and Mario Lemieux's faces when MAF was snagged by the Knights in 2017. They knew it was coming but it was a very bitter pill for that team, and particularly his road game roommate Crosby, to accept. Go Guins!
@@tomlester5291 like I said Crosby is the greatest penguin ever. And I can't stand Sidney Crosby
@@tomlester5291 I hate Crosby. I always root for Ovie
@@myboyfriendgonnagetyou97 OK, so what?
2023 draft will rival the 03 draft
No one slams harder than Jeff Carter
I don't know, why is nobody talking about 2003. In this year both NBA and NHL had the best and deepest draft in their history. How did it happened?
Basketball sucks
Nah 1984 and 1996 were greater
bro why ditch the sweades
As a Canuck fan, I was so happy when we drafted. Ryan Kesler but his departure well... No comment. Lol 🤣
Kesler was almost a Stanley Cup champion. However, Horton’s Bruins won it instead.
This draft is basically half of the team Canada roster for their dominant run from mid 2000's.
Fleury was 1st team all decade over Lundqvist and Price? Surpising. Also he was a 2nd team all star the year he won his Vezina lmao
Wow I didn’t recognize Brent Burns with his teeth back in 2003. I’ve watched Mark Stuart play in Colorado College and the famous All Star player John Scott when Mich Tech played them.
Best draft year ever and the Leafs didn't pick until 57.....all their picks were a bust too. Very indicative of managment at that time.
Now we need a 2015 draft video which is an absolute banger.
Let's not
By 2034 we will be saying this about 2015. But 2023......
The 2015 draft is the best draft class ever change my mind
@@thesweetermonster3453 its one of the best but 1979 was better.
@@GooseGumlizzard just looked at the 1979 draft it has a few elite players and the rest are plumber 2015 is easily the best 2003 is a close second. Matter of fact more than half of the 2015 class from round 1 and 2 have been all stars at one point. 2015 is clearly better. Besides borque gartner messier and maybe 4 or 5 other guys 1979 is high key trash. I assume ur an old timer. But 2015 is so stacked it’s not even funny this guy even missed kaprizov, aho and a few more.
Crazy the kings could have took perry and took Boyle.
*Will never complain about another draft video!*
#TimeForTheNextNHLGamePlayAndSim
I don't think there is any doubt this was the strongest draft ever, I haven't seen a "Best drafts of all time" article where this one is not at the top. Would be interesting to hear some relative stats though...in a typical draft on average how many players pan out etc.
Brian Boyle is one of my favorite players ever… fun fact, i know a bunch of his family too
I should of been first overall. Lots of puck in net.
It's too bad Kostitsyn was so lazy. His wrist shot was one of the best I'd ever seen.
Easily the best draft ever.
Nah 2015 entry draft even better.
I always wanted the Canucks to draft Perry
wasting our time with click-bait, no basis to the claim
and then theres... corey perry....
you didn't mention the number 10 pick, why?!
Played less than 200 games I’m assuming.
Awesome video OMR! Burns used to look so young without his signature beard back in the day.
I'd say the beard for his front teeth was a fair trade LOL
Take in Bergeron was picked in the second round and he is for sure one of the best forward taken in that draft.
*The best player taken in that draft
Why skipped 22nd?
16:10 "Now it's worth mentioning that I've only highlighted the players that suited up in at least 500 games during their NHL careers." Marc-Antoine Pouliot only played 192 games.
Steve Bernier🤡
Kostitsyn had so much potential Habs ruin every single player they come across it's truly insane.. kostitsyn was and still is my favorite player dude had dangles and sniper barely no one could compete with ..
To say that a draft is terrible because the top 15 picks were mediocre to bad players is incorrect. 2012 draft a lot of great players, Vasi in Tampa being one of them, too many to mention here
Leave it up to the oilers to pick marc-antoine pouliot over all the players that went after him.