2005
Matt Lashoff 22 OA- Bust. Not much else to say. Late pick but only 74 NHL games.
2006
Phil Kessel #5 OA- Great pick, great trade which led to a good trade and a bad trade.
2007
Zach Hamill #8 OA- Sheesh. BUST. Even more painful when you look at the guys drafted around him.
2008
Joe Colborne- #16 OA
Never played a game for the bruins. Was traded with a first round pick (turned into rickard Rakell) for Kaberle. Kaberle was a solid dman in the bruins cup run, but I’m sure they’d like to have this trade back.
2009
Jordan Caron 25 OA- fringe NHLer. Never was anything good. Late pick so not too terrible.
2010
Tyler Seguin #2 OA
Great pick. Elite player, top line center. Resulted in the infamous terrible Seguin trade. Got one or two good years of eriksson and Smith, and then literally nothing else. Bruins have nothing left from the trade.
2011
Dougie Hamilton #9 OA- Pretty good pick for the bruins. Hamilton was a good second pairing dman. Ended up being trade for the picks that became Senyshyn, Lauzon, and JFK. Trade looks solid for the bruins, would look even better if they didn’t botch the senyshyn pick, but nothing they can do about it now.
2012
Malcolm Subban #24 overall.
Very bad pick for the bruins. No need to have drafted a goalie in round 1, and subban was flat out horrible for Boston. Ended up losing him for nothing to Vegas. That being said, subban is a solid backup right now, but this pick couldn’t have gone any worse for Boston.
2013
No pick, traded to Dallas for Jagr who was a nice addition to the team that lost in the finals.
2014
David Pastrnak #25 OA- No description needed. Unbelievable steal.
2015
Jakub Zboril 13 OA- was considered the best player on the board, hasn’t worked out at all.
Jake DeBrusk- good top 6 winger, has the tools to become elite NHL winger.
Zach Senyshyn- Sheesh. Awful pick. Projected in round 2, taken at 15.
Overall, tough few picks for the bruins. Debrusk is a good player. But Zboril and senyshyn hurt considering Barzal and Connor were projected to go here, and the bruins inexplicably passed on at least one of them for senyshyn.
2016
Charlie McAvoy #14 OA- very good pick by the bruins. McAvoy will be a stud for a long time in the league, the bruins cornerstone defenseman.
EDIT: forgot Trent Frederic #29 OA
Doesn’t have NHL skill yet, however he looks like he will become a middle 6 center
2017-
Urho Vaakanainen #18 OA- too early to tell. Has had some injury issues playing pro hockey.
2018
No pick, traded to NYR for Rick Nash. Bruins gave up quantity more than quality in this trade, still would’ve been nice to have that pick though.
2019-
John Beecher #30 OA
Too early to tell. Good pick for the bruins as they gain more depth at center.
you forgot trent frederik from the list. also, kaberle was not a solid defenseman during the cup run, someone loved the guy but he was playing like 9 minutes a game during the cup run. and that 2012 draft was just terrible. not a lot of talent came from that draft at all. i dont fault the bruins for taking subban, i fault them for not flipping him for value when he had it.
you forgot trent frederik from the list. also, kaberle was not a solid defenseman during the cup run, someone loved the guy but he was playing like 9 minutes a game during the cup run. and that 2012 draft was just terrible. not a lot of talent came from that draft at all. i dont fault the bruins for taking subban, i fault them for not flipping him for value when he had it.
you forgot trent frederik from the list. also, kaberle was not a solid defenseman during the cup run, someone loved the guy but he was playing like 9 minutes a game during the cup run. and that 2012 draft was just terrible. not a lot of talent came from that draft at all. i dont fault the bruins for taking subban, i fault them for not flipping him for value when he had it.
Quoting: klondikebar
wow the bruins are very boom or bust when it comes to drafting
In general the Bruin draft very well.
2012 was a very bad year as you said.
But 2015 with 3 first round picks, the Bruins should have done better
Mathew Barzal, Kyle Connor and Thomas Chabot were taken directly after the 3 Boston picks while Brock Boeser and Travis Konecny were taken 22nd and 23rd.
As a Sabre fan this was the year I started to doubt our GM DATM. While Boston tried to get more picks and missed out on many good players, Buffalo was trading away the picks and over paying for players other teams did not want. So the team had a good top line and nothing else.
During that same period my Sabres fired all of the scouts and therefore only were able to get limited results of the first round picks.
McDavid, Connor
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