Past Avalanche Drafts (Round 3)

by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jun 23, 2009 3:13 PM MDT in NHL News

We'll close out today's stroll through memory lane with a look at the Avs' round 3 draft picks. Tomorrow I'll look at later draft rounds.

Round 3 is the 2nd best for the Avs in terms of NHL games played. However, a big chunk of those games came from two players that the Avalanche weren't able to sign - Kurt Sauer and Bronko Radivojevic. Still, 5 players with 100 NHL games (soon to be 6) is a hell of a lot better than our 2nd round.

Year	Rnd	Ov	Player	Amateur Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	Notables (Overall)
2006	3	81	Michael Carman	USA U-18 (USDP)							None
2005	3	88	T.J. Hensick	U. of Michigan	92	10	22	32	-11	16	Jared Boll (101)
2004	3	72	Denis Parshin	CSKA 2							Alex Edler (91)
2002	3	94	Eric Lundberg	Providence College							Valtteri Filppula (95)
2001	3	97	Danny Bois	London	1	0	0	0	0	7	Jordin Tootoo (98)
2000	3	88	Kurt Sauer	Spokane	356	5	28	33	-16	250	Dominic Moore (95)
2000	3	92	Sergei Klyazmin	Dynamo							Nic Wallin (97)
1999	3	93	Branko Radivojevic	Belleville	393	52	68	120	-35	252	Chris Kelly (94)
1998	3	79	Evgeny Lazarev	Kitchener Jr. B							Brian Gionta (82)
1997	3	55	Rick Berry	Seattle	197	2	13	15	-6	314	Jani Hurme (58)
1997	3	78	Ville Nieminen	Tappara Tampere, FIN	385	48	69	117	-28	333	Joe Corvo (83)
1996	3	79	Mark Parrish	St. Cloud State	705	215	170	385	-40	242	Toni Lydman (89)
1995	3	77	John Tripp	Oshawa	43	2	7	9	-3	35	Alym McCauley (79)

The Avalanche haven't had a 3rd round pick in the last two drafts, but do have a 3rd this year (64th). Overall, not too many obvious "should haves" in this round, although Valtteri Filppula, Jordin Tootoo and Brian Gionta would have been nice upgrades over Eric Lundberg, Danny Boi and Evgeny Lazarev.

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