Coming up to this years NHL entry draft, I got looking back through some old drafts and came across a year where I didn't recognize the name of a single player that the Habs took. The year was 1999 and Montreal's 11 picks ended up playing a total of two games. Brutal.
Matt Carkner was the Canadiens second pick of the draft. Chosen in the second round, 58th overall, Carkner played one game with Sharks in '05-'06, and another with the Sens last year.
Now, the '99 draft was a pretty weak crop overall, and a lot of teams didn't get much from it. The Sedins worked out, but it was a crap shoot after them. The Habs didn't have a first round pick in 1999, but here are some guys Rejean Houle passed up, along with a lot of other GMs:
(2/42) Mike Commodore
(2/44) Jordan Leopold
(3/91) Mike Comrie
(4/115) Ryan Malone
(7/210) Henrik Zetterberg
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