In our third and final installment, we’re diving into the players selected 6th overall since the dawn of the cap era in 2005 (apologies to 2000 6th overall pick, Scott Hartnell). You can check in with our breakdowns of the 22nd overall and 31st overall picks from earlier this week too, and hopefully get a sense of where the Flyers stand entering this draft.
The 6th overall pick is…I don’t want to say “cursed,” but it is a pick where the prospects rarely live up to the expectations of where they were drafted. Many of the players on this list have had long NHL careers as effective players, but it’s not until the 2010s that we start to see some real top-of-the-lineup, star potential.