Canucks might have just suffered a 2004-level historical misfortune in draft lottery
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Vancouver has to hope it doesn't look like this in retrospect.
Canucks might have just suffered a 2004-level historical misfortune in draft lottery originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . There's been an old draft ranking circulating on hockey social media recently.
It depicts the top prospects in the 2004 NHL Draft. Your brain likely came up with the first two: Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin. The problem comes with what happens after them.
It's not pretty. “Oh sick, we’ve got the 3rd pick in the 2004 NHL draft. Should be able to get a franchise player.
Neat. ” pic. twitter.