Fun fact of the day: in the 1990 draft, the Oilers somehow managed to pick 11 players who combined to play *zero* NHL games

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1. And somehow managed an invalid pick with their 12th pick, selection #227.

2. That’s the 1990 Stanley Cup Champion Oilers to you…

   We’ll cry about this later

3. The more you know.

4. They didn’t have a lot of holes on the roster needing to be filled

5. The true beginning of the decade of darkness

6. As bad as it was, it only slightly makes up for the Oilers good fortune in the early 80s.

   Not only did they get to keep Gretzky when joining the NHL (instead of him entering the draft for Montreal to pick with 1oa), but they had some of the most insane draft success in the next three years.

   1979 – Mark Messier 48th, Glenn Anderson 69th

   1980 – Paul Coffey 6th, Jari Kurri 69th, Andy Moog 132nd.

   1981 – Grant Fuhr 8th, Steve Smith 111th

   I would be curious if anyone has ever topped that run, considering how late some of the picks were.

7. Scott Allison looks a bit like Mcdavid

8. As a fan of the Czech Extraliga, funny to see they picked two legends in Richard Žemlička and Petr Kořínek. Both are near Hall of Famers back home 🙂

9. The Flames traded up to get the first that would be Trevor Kidd for the first that was Martin Brodeur… what’s crazy is that Devils drafted Marty head of Felix the Cat.

   For 2-3 years after it did look like Calgary got the better goalie… and then!

   https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1791055/2020/05/04/what-if-the-flames-had-drafted-martin-brodeur-in-1990-instead-of-trevor-kidd/

10. That’s hilarious. Not as bad, but reminds me of the Sharks 1995 draft. Putting aside goalies, the only non-goalie to play any NHL games was 8th rounder Ryan Kraft, who got 7 games in *2002-2003*.

11. SHUTOUT!

12. This was the draft that Calgary picked Trevor Kidd over Martin Brodeur too.

    Not a great draft for the Alberta teams in hindsight.

13. And I thought the Bruins 2015 draft was bad. I take it back.

14. Lmao