Sharks Biggest Draft Booms and Busts Since 2000

[OversKy]

What is the story on Riihijarvi? Just best Finn available in a "we're drafting all Finns" draft?

 

[ieglover]

All Euro except for 1 pick that year I think. Heavy on Finns and at least the 2 goalies turned out well.

I think someone just fell in love with his size. The Sharks went Rathje, Nazarov, Kozlov and then Friesen. While Friesen wasnt small, they decided to go back to picking gigantuars.

It really depends on how you define bust. Riihijarvi I wouldnt consider a bust because everyone knew it was an awful pick to begin with and looking back, it wasnt a great draft anyhow.

I still remember how stoked everyone was at getting Petrecki, and it turned into such a disappointment. Wishart and Jillson, even though they were drafted higher never really got anyone over excited from what I recall.

 

[TheBigDrunkPanda]

What is the story on Riihijarvi? Just best Finn available in a "we're drafting all Finns" draft?

Add this guy to the list

Tero Määttä​

 

[CanadienShark]

Celebrini

 

[Shark in Hockeytown]

What is the story on Riihijarvi? Just best Finn available in a "we're drafting all Finns" draft?

Riihijarvi was completely off the board pick by Grillo. The Hockey News knew so little about him that they listed him as both a left wing and a defenseman.

 

[Sandisfan]

It was amazing how bad that draft was and how few players contributed anything in the NHL. Almost every team had a bad draft that year. Which is the year if Grillo did something really Dumb that was the year to do it, though the two goalies they took turned out as really good picks and with Miikka Kiprusoff and Vesa Toslka. Missing out on Miikka's run because he was terrible in his few chances and not being able to trade Nabby for a great price turned OK as Nabby was good for several years and what they got for each Vesa more as throw in and what that turned into was Good not great. I think the 2nd turned into Edward ORR Vlasic.

 

[Anomie2029]

Melbourne Mustangs (Australian Ice Hockey League) superstar - Ty Wishart!

Taken 16OA in the 2006 draft. Notable players picked after him? Trevor Lewis, Claude Giroux, Semyon Varlamov, Nick Foligno, Jeff Petry, Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand, Cal Clutterbuck.

 

[Barrie22]

Macklin Celebrini

 

[OrrNumber4]

What is the story on Riihijarvi? Just best Finn available in a "we're drafting all Finns" draft?

The story is that the Sharks got him confused with someone else.

 

[karltonian]

What is the story on Riihijarvi? Just best Finn available in a "we're drafting all Finns" draft?

It's the All Teemus Are Destined For Greatness pick

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Wishart and Petrecki are essentially the same type of player & they drafted em 2 years in a row. Sharks got Boyle out of Wishart so that's a solid return at least

 

[Bizz]

What is the story on Riihijarvi? Just best Finn available in a "we're drafting all Finns" draft?

Somebody got into our GM's head that he was "the next Selanne".

 

[Star Platinum]

Somebody got into our GM's head that he was "the next Selanne".

Unfortunately, when we got the actual Selanne, he wasn't that Selanne anymore.