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Islanders That Never Were: Jared Spurgeon

13 swings is a lot in a single draft. That's how many picks the New York Islanders had in 2008 as their rebuild truly got underway. The Isles found key pieces like Josh Bailey, Travis Hamonic, and Matt Martin in this class that would be on the forefront of the Islanders' turnaround.

There's another guy from this draft class though who also has 600+ games in the NHL like the other three and that's Jared Spurgeon. With pick 156, the Islanders took Spurgeon out of the WHL.

In his draft year, he had 43 points (12 goals, 31 assists) in 69 games.