Past Avalanche Drafts (Round 5)

by David Driscoll-Carignan on Jun 24, 2009 3:26 PM MDT in NHL News

Round 5. As we get further along into this, it seems clear that while the Avalanche have done poorly towards the top of the draft, they get much better at identifying (or developing) talent in later rounds. John-Michael Liles, Cody McCormick, Brad Richardson and Brent Johnson are all excellent.

Year	Rnd	Ov	Player	Amateur Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	Notables (Overall)
2008	5	140	Mark Olver	Northern Mich. (CCHA)							None
2007	5	135	Paul Carey	Salisbury (High-CT)							None
2004	5	154	R. Demen-Willaume	Frolunda JR.							None
2003	5	146	Mark McCutcheon	New England (EJHL)							Lee Stempniak (148)
2003	5	163	Brad Richardson	Owen Sound (OHL)	167	19	26	45	-5	59	Bruno Gervais (182)
2002	5	164	Tyler Weiman	Tri-City	1	0	0	0	0	0	Paul Ranger (183)
2001	5	143	Frantisek Skladany	Boston U.
2001	5	144	Cody McCormick	Belleville	190	9	21	30	-2	250
2001	5	149	Mikko Viitanen	Ahmat							Kevin Bieksa (151)
2001	5	165	Pierre-Luc Emond	Drummondville							Dennis Seidenberg (172)
2000	5	159	John-Michael Liles	Michigan State	388	56	142	198	-5	153	Roman Checkmanek (171)
1999	5	142	Will Magnuson	Lake Superior U.
1999	5	152	Jordan Krestanovich	Calgary	22	0	2	2	1	6	Niko Dimitrakos (155)
1998	5	141	K.C. Timmons	Tri-City							Mikael Samuelsson (145)
1997	5	133	Aaron Miskovich	Green Bay Jr.							Mike York (136)
1996	5	134	Luke Curtin	Kelowna							Andreas Dackell (136)
1995	5	129	Brent Johnson	Owen Sound	247	111	94	25	2.63	0.903	Brent Sopel (144)

Other than the appearance of Mikael Samuellson and Mike York, you can't find many faults with the Avs 5th round picks over the years.

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I miss Richardson.

by Rather Dashing on Jun 24, 2009 4:10 PM MDT reply actions

me too. I should have noted this on my “the why of Tucker” post at jibbles, bbut I don’t get why we didn’t use Richie in that tucker role? He seemed to have a dash of 2nd line ability and was a good 3rd liner.

i guess he’s sucked over in LA, but I still can’t help but think he can excel still.

by thedoctor on Jun 24, 2009 5:02 PM MDT up reply actions