Making an NHL team out of Ken Holland's 1st Round Picks

[Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083]

Ken Holland was Red Wings GM from 1997 to 2019. Here are his 1st Round Picks over that time. 

1997: Traded for Brendan Shanahan (played 9 seasons in Detroit)

1998: Jiri Fischer

1999: Traded for Chris Chelios (played 9+ seasons in Detroit)

2000: Nick Kronwall

2001: Also Traded for Chris Chelios

2002: Traded for Dominik Hasek (played 2 seasons in Detroit after trade)

2003: Traded for Mathieu Scheider (played 5+ seasons in Detroit)

2004: Traded for Robert Lang (played 2+ seasons in Detroit)

2005: Jakub Kindl

2006: Traded to Coyotes for 2 2nd rounders (Cory Emmerton and Shawn Matthias)

2007: Brendan Smith

2008: Tom McCollum

2009: Traded to Lightning for a 2nd and 3rd (Landon Ferraro and Andrej Nestrasil)

2010: Riley Sheahan

2011: Traded to Ottawa for 2 2nd rounders (Tomas Jurco and Xavier Ouellet)

2012: Traded for Kyle Quincey (played 4+ seasons more with Detroit)

2013: Anthony Mantha

2014: Dylan Larkin

2015: Yevgeni Svechnikov

2016: Dennis Cholowski

2017: Michael Rasmussen

2018: Filip Zadina

Edited September 10, 2021 by Neomaxizoomdweebie

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Top F line: Shanahan-Lang-Mantha

2nd F line: Rasmussen-Larkin-Zadina

3rd F line: Matthias-Sheahan-Svechnikov

4th F line: Nestrasil-Emmerton-Jurco

Healthy scratch: Ferraro

Top D pair: Kronwall-Chelios

2nd D pair: Fischer-Schneider

3rd D pair: Quincey-Smith

Healthy scratches: Kindl, Ouellet

Starting G: Hasek

Backup G: McCollum

AHL: Cholowski

Edited September 10, 2021 by Neomaxizoomdweebie

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17 hours ago, Neomaxizoomdweebie said:

Top F line: Shanahan-Lang-Mantha

2nd F line: Rasmussen-Larkin-Zadina

3rd F line: Matthias-Sheahan-Svechnikov

4th F line: Nestrasil-Emmerton-Jurco

Healthy scratch: Ferraro

Top D pair: Kronwall-Chelios

2nd D pair: Fischer-Schneider

3rd D pair: Quincey-Smith

Healthy scratches: Kindl, Ouellet

Starting G: Hasek

Backup G: McCollum

AHL: Cholowski

That first line and top D pair are relatively good. 

[chaps80 1,591]

Hasek gets credit for the Hasek trade. Holland expected to go into 2001/02 with Osgood until Hasek told his agent he wanted to go to Detroit and to make it happen.

[Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083]

1 hour ago, chaps80 said:

Hasek gets credit for the Hasek trade. Holland expected to go into 2001/02 with Osgood until Hasek told his agent he wanted to go to Detroit and to make it happen.

Holland still had to negotiate with Buffalo to get the deal done. He gets credit for that.

[GMRwings1983 8,795]

Counting Chelios and Hasek as 1st round picks is a reach.  Chances are, the 1st round pick from those drafts wouldn't be anywhere at the level of those two players.  

[Jonas Mahonas 1,872]

wheres blue adams?

[LeftWinger 5,022]

Holland was not GM yet for the Shanny trade. He was acquired in 1996, Holland wasn't hired until Summer 1997, and I think it was after the 97 draft as well, so that one can be omitted I think.

[Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083]

Shanahan trade: 10-09-96

Holland named GM: 7-18-97

Thanks for ruining my hard work, nerd.

[LeftWinger 5,022]

6 hours ago, Neomaxizoomdweebie said:

Shanahan trade: 10-09-96

Holland named GM: 7-18-97

Thanks for ruining my hard work, nerd.

Nah, you done good kid.