Predlines
Fansided

Nashville Predators: Ranking the Best Draft Classes in Team History

By Chad Minton

Seth Jones (R), drafted #4 overall in the first round by the Nashville Predators, greets members of the Predators organization during the 2013 NHL Draft at the Prudential Center on June 30, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Seth Jones (R), drafted #4 overall in the first round by the Nashville Predators, greets members of the Predators organization during the 2013 NHL Draft at the Prudential Center on June 30, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /
facebooktwitterreddit
Prev
2 of 6
Next

Nashville Predators make their first draft pick in 1998

I’m starting this countdown off with the draft pick that started it all, and that’s David Legwand. I get that this draft class wasn’t what you would call “star studded”, but the Predators didn’t screw up by taking the wrong player at the 2nd overall pick.

More from Predlines

This is widely considered a weak draft class, and the Predators made the best possible choice by taking Legwand, a player that to this day still leads a lot of major statistical categories including goals (210), assists (356) and games played (956).

Even the second-round pick from that year wasn’t a total bust. Denis Arkhipov went on to play 273 games and put up 111 points for Nashville once he got onto the NHL ice for the 2000-01 season.

In the 9th round the Predators took Karlis Skrastins, a defenseman who ended up playing 307 games for Nashville and logged an average ice time of over 20 minutes per game. You’ll take that every time from a late round draft pick.

The rest of the draft class really didn’t pan out, but you can say that for pretty much every team from that draft.

Home/Draft