Bon sang, il y a certainement eu des moments sombres. C’est pourquoi je grince des dents maintenant quand les gens disent que les Rangers ne peuvent pas développer d’attaquants et que nous sommes d’excellents gardiens de but en développement. Cela n’a pas toujours été le cas et les récents attaquants semblent s’en sortir bien mieux que les précédents. Faits amusants : De 96 à 03, le nombre total de matchs joués par tous nos choix de 1ère ronde combinés est de 1 429. Malhotra compte à lui seul pour 991 de ces jeux. Et Lundmark pour 293. Aïe 32 choix ; seulement 9 ont joué plus de 500 po. Je crois que seuls Kreider et Staal ont fait ça avec les Rangers
[2023](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-23 [**Gabe Perreault**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_Perreault) GP 0
[2021](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-16 [**Brennan Othmann**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennan_Othmann) 0
[2020](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-1 [**Alexis Lafrenière**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Lafreni%C3%A8re) 216
[2020](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_NHL_Entry_Draft)119[**Braden Schneider**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braden_Schneider) 124
[2019](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-2 [**Kaapo Kakko**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaapo_Kakko) 239
[2018](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-9 [Vitali Kravtsov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Kravtsov) 63
[2018](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-22 [**K’Andre Miller**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27Andre_Miller) 214
[2018](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-28 [Nils Lundkvist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Lundkvist) 85
[2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-7 [Lias Andersson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lias_Andersson) 110
[2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-21 [**Filip Chytil**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Chytil) 327
[2012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-28 [Brady Skjei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Skjei) 529
[2011](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-15 [J. T. Miller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._T._Miller) 718
[2010](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-10 [Dylan McIlrath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_McIlrath) 72
[2009](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-19 [**Chris Kreider**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kreider) 733
[2008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-20 [Michael Del Zotto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Del_Zotto) 736
[2007](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-17 [Alexei Cherepanov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Cherepanov) 0 🙁 RIP
[2006](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-21 [Bob Sanguinetti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sanguinetti) 45
[2005](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-12 [Marc Staal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Staal) 1101 (2e)
[2004](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-6 [Al Montoya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Montoya) 168
[2004](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-19 [Lauri Korpikoski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_Korpikoski) 609
[2003](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-12 [Hugh Jessiman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jessiman) 2
[2001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-10 [Dan Blackburn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Blackburn) 63
[1999](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-4 [Pavel Brendl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Brendl) 78
[1999](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-9 [Jamie Lundmark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Lundmark) 295
[1998](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-7 [Manny Malhotra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Malhotra) 991 (3e)
[1997](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-19 [Stefan Cherneski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Cherneski) 0
[1996](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-22 [Jeff Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Brown_(ice_hockey,_born_1978)) 0
[1994](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-26 [Dan Cloutier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Cloutier) 351
[1993](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-8 [Niklas Sundstrom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundstr%C3%B6m) 750
[1992](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-24 [Peter Ferraro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ferraro) 92
[1991](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-15 [Alexei Kovalev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Kovalev) 1300 (1er)
[1990](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_NHL_Entry_Draft) 1-13 [Michael Stewart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stewart_(ice_hockey)) 0
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The answer is and probably always will be Dylan McIlrath in 2010
Cherepanov
How much worse is the Rangers draft performance than other teams? Lots of teams have hits and misses, I’m curious if we are measurably worse.
Jessiman was bad because of how many HoF players were chosen after him. McIlrath was bad because he was a dumb pick at the time and guys like Cam Fowler and Vladimir Tarasenko were still on the board and Ranger forums were giddy with excitement that the Rangers could get one of them. Bobby Sanguinetti was bad but at the 20-25 range you’re not expecting to get a game breaker, but Giroux went right after. Can’t remember if there was hype surrounding him or not but hindsight. Cherapanov is sad because he had a whole life ahead of him if not for an undiagnosed heart condition, that one hurts more on the human side than the hockey side
Edit: I seem to have stricken Lias Anderson from my memory. That one wasn’t too bad until the development phase
Outside of Cherepanov it’s Lias. He was panic drafted when Petersson was taken right before him and was in no way shape or form ready for the NHL
Probably Montoya 6th overall. If he panned out the sixth overall production, those henrik years could have been a little more successful. Other than that it has to be lias Anderson
Cherepanov is the correct answer here
But if we are going off on ice performance McIlrath over Tarasenko probably cost the Rangers at least 1 cup
Cherepanov. He could’ve probably been our version of Vladimir Tarasenko at the very least. Was shocked the day he passed away, very surreal.
I’ve definitely mentioned it here before but we suck at drafting and developing serious talent, historically. Not just 1st rounders either. In the past 40 years of drafts there are only 4 players we drafted who scored 60 points or more in a single season for us. Which is very very low. I’m pretty sure over the same span the Blue Jackets had 9 or 10 players they drafted score 60 points or more for them.
Having been a Rangers fan for the entirety of this list, I can probably speak with a little more objectivity, understanding the context that many of you who were 3 years old when these picks happened, don’t have because you were 3 years old.
The single worst pick? Jessiman. This is due to a number of factors, in large part because they missed badly in a can’t-miss draft. All the warning signs were there. He had one good year, on a non-elite Dartmouth team, in a weak ECAC division, in the NCAA which at the time, wasn’t exactly known for producing first round level talent (that wasn’t already known) . The Jessiman miss, in that draft, set the franchise back for probably a decade or more. It was a reach pick in a hall of fame draft. Imagine if we had a legitimate top line scorer on those callahan-dubinsky teams. Imagine if we had a #1 defenseman in front of Lundqvist for a decade.
Montoya hurts, in hindsight, because Lundqvist. I’m not a fan of taking goalies in the first round, and this is a prime example of why. Lundqvist was already in the system and having a good career in the SEL. I don’t remember if there were questions if he would come over or not, and of course you can’t pin the franchise on a 22 year old european goalie. Further, many of you did not live through this time period, because it’s easy to think that we went from prime Richter to Lundqvist. That was not the case. Richter went through a number of bad, injury filled years, and there was a dark period where we went through a TON of veteran goalies in addition to the Blackburn injury. Rangers *needed* a franchise goalie. I get that, but the pick itself still hurts.
Brendl hurt a lot too. Rangers were desperate for a blue chip prospect, and the one they got turned out so bad. Like 10x worse than Nail Yakupov.
A few of these guys hit injuries that ended their careers. Blackburn, Cherneski, and of course Cherepanov. Nobody’s fault, but just real bad luck.
I have to give a pass to a number of misses, because, that’s life. You’re not going to hit on every first rounder. Lias was a bit of a reach, but he was still a first rounder. Same with Sanguinetti, McIlrath, others. Kravtsov was a reach at his draft position, but he had the talent to justify it. A couple years after he was drafted, it looked like he should have gone higher. But now we all know what happened after that.
Overall the Rangers don’t draft great in the first round. They rarely hit the home run. They tend to make up for it in the middle rounds, the ones where Sather stops caring. It’s in part infuriating because amateur scouting is one area where a big market, big money team has a significant advantage over other clubs. There’s no salary cap on the number of amateur scouts you can have. A big market club should have an amateur scout for every top junior league in the world, and multiples for the CHL and NCAA. You could double your scouting budget for the fraction of the cost of buying out the UFA you signed to fill the hold you had on your roster, because you picked the wrong guy 10 years ago. But no one ever thinks of that.
Dan Blackburn played with two blockers, that’s the one
Reflecting on this post, it seems we’re better at finding “diamond in the rough” players. Callahan in the 4th, Lundqvist in the 7th, Girardi undrafted, Hagelin in the 6th, Shesty in the 4th, Buch in the 3rd, Duclair in the 3rd, Fast in the 6th. Our hits are so much better in the later rounds. Sans Lundqvist, none of these players set the world on fire, but they’re all competent NHL players. Now don’t me wrong, there will always be a number of Robin Kovacs, Aleksi Saarela, & Ryan Bourque in these late rounds, but we’ve hit here. The issue we have is you need to also hit on *at least* two-three of your 1st or 2nd round picks pretty seriously (aka high caliber) to get anywhere if this is your strong suite.
Chereponov was pure tragedy. Jessiman and McIlrath were pure stupidity. But for me the correct answer is…
Lafreniere. First actual 1OA for the team since the 1960s, a consensus pick with the unique opportunity to both strengthen an immediate Cup push AND become a franchise cornerstone for years…and going into year four he’s on a ‘show me’ contract because he hasn’t yet cracked 40 points. He most recently put up a platinum sombrero in a brutal 7 game series against a hated rival in a season we rightfully went all in. It sucks.
The story of the last 2-3 years and the next 10+ are entirely different if he was a true impact player like many 1OAs have been. Hopefully he gets there one day, but he will rocket up your respective disappointment rankings if he doesn’t.
1-Cherepanov
2-Jessiman
3-McIlrath
4-Lias
5-Sanguinetti
The Huge Specimen, Hugh Jessiman. Sanguinetti and McIlrath also hurt.
Grachev was also a big disappointment despite not being a first rounder.
Rest in Peace, Alexei.
The saddest part about Alexei Cherepanov was that neither his Russian teàm nor the Rangers knew about his heart problem. You would have thought that prior to the draft, he would have had a psychical and it would have been picked up on.
The mistake on Lias was one that shouldn’t have happened. Reading his scouting report,the was considered the safest pick in the draft that year. He wasn’t considered a top 6 player, but a good servicable 3rd line center. Everyone expected too much out of him. His immaturity…another flaws that the scouting staff didn’t find.
One of the things about the draft is it’s a crapshoot. Granted, a 1st round pick should be a no brainier, but it doesn’t always guarantee a great player.
When you look at this list, it does show that the Rangers have had some shitty scouts. Too many misses on that list. The last few years, have been better
3 answers IMO for different reasons.
Jessiman because of the insane talent pool we missed out on in that legendary draft.
McIlrath because his selection was a terrible thought process and he had a pathetically low ceiling as a player.
Cherepanov because he died.
At 46 years old, I can’t even get thru HALF this list without wanting to cry LOL
So much incompetence for almost a century.
Giving away JT Miller as a throw-in the McDonagh trade then watching him become a star.
We’re really just not a well run organization. We can’t develop talent, we refuse to really try, and we’re pathetic in terms of asset management. If the Rangers were even adequately managed we’d have won at least two cups since ‘94.
Cherepanov, then Jessiman.