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Past Avalanche Drafts (Round 2)

By David Driscoll-Carignan


And here we go with Round 2. As AD pointed out today, the Avalanche have a lot of flame outs here with just Paul Stastny and Peter Budaj having reached the 100-game barrier (although it's still a little early to judge a lot of the recent selections). The Avs have had at least 2 second round picks in each draft going back to 2005 and they indeed go into this year's draft with two picks (33 and 49).

 

Year   Rnd Ov Player   Amateur Team   GP   G   A   PTS   +/-   PIM   Notables (Overall)
2008 2 50 Cameron Gaunce  Miss. St. Michael's (OHL)  None
2008 2 61 Peter Delmas  Lewiston (QMJHL)  None
2007 2 45 Colby Cohen  Lincoln (USHL)  None
2007 2 49 Trevor Cann  Peterborough (OHL)  None
2007 2 55 T.J. Galiardi  Dartmouth (ECAC)  11 3 1 4 -4 6 None
2006 2 51 Nigel Williams  USA U-18 (USDP)  None
2006 2 59 Codey Burki  Brandon (WHL)  Cal Clutterbuck (72)
2005 2 34 Ryan Stoa  USA U-18  M.E. Vlasic (35)
2005 2 44 Paul Stastny  U. of Denver  193 63 122 185 17 88 G. Latandresse (45)
2005 2 47 Tom Fritsche  Ohio State  Mason Raymond (51)
2005 2 52 Chris Durand  Seattle  Kris Letang (62)
2004 2 55 Victor Oreskovich  Green Bay  Nick Grossman (56)
2003 2 63 David Liffiton  Plymouth  3 0 0 0 1 9 Dan Carcillo (73)
2002 2 61 Johnny Boychuk  Calgary  5 0 0 0 1 0 Tom Fleishchmann (63)
2001 2 63 Peter Budaj  St. Michael's  182 81 65 21 2.75 0.902 Brendan Bell (65)
2000 2 47 Jared Aulin  Kamloops  17 2 2 4 -3 0 Andrea Lilja (54)
2000 2 50 Sergei Soin  Krylja Sovetov  Antoine Vermette (55)
2000 2 63 Agris Saviels  Owen Sound  Mikael Tellqvist (70)
1999 2 45 Martin Grenier  Quebec  18 1 0 1 -1 14 Adam Hall (52)
1998 2 28 Ramzi Abid  Chicoutimi  68 14 16 30 -11 78 Jonathan Cheechoo (29)
1998 2 38 Philippe Sauve  Rimouski  32 10 14 3 3.45 0.888 John Erskine (39)
1998 2 53 Steve Moore  Harvard  69 5 7 12 -9 41 Tyler Bouck (57)
1997 2 53 Graham Belak  Edmonton  Jani Hurme (58)
1996 2 51 Yuri Babenko  Moscow, CIS  3 0 0 0 0 0 Zdeno Chara (56)
1995 2 51 Nic Beaudoin  Detroit  Brad Larsen (53)

 

When I looked at the Avs draft history last year, I found that Avalanche 2nd rounders had the least number of NHL games of any of the first 7 rounds. I'm going to tally those numbers again later this week, but it appears that the 601 NHL games from Colorado's 2nd rounders, this is still traditionally the weakest round for the team. Oddly, with all the busts there doesn't appear to be a lot of missed talent where the Avalanche picked, although Yuri Babenko taken just 4 picks ahead of Zdeno Chara certainly stings.