The draft is a fickle mistress, teasing you with untold potential and the chance of landing a franchise player. Teams put in an enormous amount of work evaluating talent, separating the pretenders from the blue-chippers, though the system doesn’t always hold.
In this article, we’ll take a look at five first-round picks that failed to pan out for the Carolina Hurricanes. Along with that, we’ll take a look at some players who the Hurricanes could have chosen.
As a disclaimer, I realize how easy it is to look back now and how the players who were chosen later were not guaranteed to develop the way that they did.