Nashville Predators Top 15 First Round Draft Picks
Ryan Parent, D, 2005, #18 Pick in the First Round
If you google Ryan Parent Hockey Bust, more than 250,000 links will come up. He actually was in the Nashville Predators organization twice but never played a game for them. He is most famous as part of the trade with Scottie Upshall to the Philly Flyers for Peter Forsberg.
Although he was mostly a defensive stalwart, he only scored 10 goals in juniors in the OHL. That translated about right as he scored a grand total of one goal in 106 total NHL games for Philadelphia and Vancouver. He was traded back to the Preds for the rights to Dan Hamhuis but was then traded to Vancouver where he played 4 games.
The @WBSPenguins have signed defenseman Ryan Parent to an AHL standard player contract. pic.twitter.com/HnMorT0CF0
— WBS Penguins (@WBSPenguins) March 17, 2016
He has played the last six years for six different minor league teams, most recently for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. He is listed on several lists of the biggest busts in Predators history.
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