With time winding down until we hear Doug Wilson read out a name of some lucky kid drafted number nine overall at the 2015 NHL Draft in Sunrise, Florida, we are reviewing the past twenty-four ninth overall draft selections. You can check out the ninth overall bottom feeders from the past twenty-four years in our previous articles here (part one) and here (part two).
As we approach the top-20, the list will get more and more controversial. While there was a relative clear cut for the bottom players, we are getting into the territory of “your average” NHL player, and picking one over the other will start to get harder and harder.