Uncover the Shocking Draft Blunders and Hidden Gems Unveiled for Every NHL Team This Decade
Worst: Egor Korshkov
Korshkov was the 31st overall pick in 2016 and the first selection of the second round. He played in exactly one game for the Leafs. What makes it all worse is all the players who went after him — Jordan Kyrou (35th), Alex DeBrincat (39th), Adam Fox (66th) and Brandon Hagel (159th), among others. It was a big swing and a miss for the Leafs. — Jonas Siegel
Utah Mammoth
Best: Clayton Keller and Jakob Chychrun
The Arizona Coyotes struggled at the draft table a lot over the years, at times due to a lack of resources put into scouting, especially in the bankruptcy years. But at the 2016 draft, they plucked a face of the franchise in Keller at seventh overall and a top-pairing defenseman (Chychrun) at 16th. Many of the picks around those two were misfires, so Arizona did well to find surplus value that season.
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