The jury is still out on most of the Bruins’ key NHL entry draft decisions from the past couple years. Although defensemen Brandon Carlo and Charlie McAvoy have launched their careers very impressively, there can’t be any true judgments made on the success or failure of this crucial era of B’s drafting until we see what Jakub Zboril, Jake DeBrusk, Zachary Senyshyn, Trent Frederic, Anders Bjork, Ryan Donato and others can do at the NHL level.

The B’s draft performance over the years hasn’t been great, with numerous obvious exceptions — David Pastrnak (2014 first round, 25th overall), Brad Marchand (2006 third round, 71st), Milan Lucic (2006 second round, 50th). And going back, P.J. Axelsson (1995 seventh round, 177th) and Hal Gill (1993 eighth round, 207th).

But it’s some of the high-profile mistakes that have hurt.

It’s always kind of a cheap shot to rip teams for lousy draft choices. Scan through any NHL club’s draft history and you’ll find plenty of questionable selections. Trying to project what an 18-year-old kid will become down the road is a perilous task, but a misguided decision can set a franchise back for years to come.

Many times it seemed as though the Bruins had a strange organizational arrogance in their drafting: The idea that they were smarter and more creative in their assessment of players than NHL Central Scouting or other teams in uncovering hidden gems others had overlooked.

So many times they only outsmarted themselves, as head-scratching choices flopped. In large part due to innumerable wasted picks, so many B’s squads seemed one or two or three players away from being legit Cup contenders.

So in advance of next weekend’s NHL draft, we offer a look back at the many costly misses made during our tenure on the beat.

Here’s our top 10, or bottom 10 is more like it:

1. Evgeni Ryabchikov, 1994

The B’s used their first-round pick (No. 21) on a Russian goaltender who was so bad that he never played an NHL game — and, it was said, couldn’t even stop pucks in AHL practices. When he was picked, the goaltenders still on the draft board included Jose Theodore, Marty Turco, Tim Thomas and Tomas Vokoun.

2. ZACH HAMILL, 2007

The talent pool was loaded with youngsters destined for NHL greatness — Logan Couture (No. 9 overall), Ryan McDonagh (12th), Max Pacioretty (22nd) and P.K. Subban (43rd).

But the Bruins used the No. 8 selection on undersized center Hamill, who would play just 20 NHL games, with 0-4-4 totals. The fact that Couture (504 games; 179-196-375; and a 2011-12 All-Star) was the player chosen one pick after Hamill is going to make this blunder hard to forget. He kicked around the minors for five to six years, and for the past four years has played in various European leagues.

3. JOHNATHAN AITKEN, 1996

The Bruins flushed away the No. 8 pick here. The big, slow-reacting blueliner totaled three games for the B’s, who could instead have chosen defensemen Ruslan Salei (917 games), Derek Morris (1,107) or Cory Sorich (969), or star forwards like Dainius Zubrus, Marco Sturm and Danny Briere.

4. LARS JONSSON, 2000

The No. 7 overall pick in the 2000 draft, Jonsson visited Boston and told a reporter he emulated the physical, over-the-edge style of fellow Swede Ulf Samuelsson, who was loathed in Boston, but had a pretty solid 1,080-game NHL career.

Jonsson turned out to have nothing to offer, cheap-shots, skill or otherwise: He never played for the Bruins, and appeared in just eight NHL games with Philadelphia (0-2-2). Fellow 2000 draftees Ron Hainsey (13th pick), Brooks Orpik (18th) and Justin Williams (28th) are still big NHL contributors.

5. MALCOLM SUBBAN, 2012

It’s still probably premature to ink in the 23-year-old Subban, the B’s first pick (24th) as a draft bust. But his first four pro seasons are hardly encouraging. His stats at Providence (AHL): 127 games, 56-45 record, 2.40 GAA, .918 save percentage. This year he appeared in just three playoff games, as Zane McIntyre played 16 and clearly emerged as the B’s best minor league goalie prospect.

Subban’s two NHL games were a mess: Two losses, six goals-allowed on 22 shots, for a .727 save percentage and 5.81 GAA.

6. ROB CIMETTA, 1998

Our chief recollection of Cimetta, a No. 18 pick, was a night in Toronto when he was, as usual, a healthy scratch. He sat in the press box surreptitiously reading a novel and playing no attention to the game. A reporter warned him that he’d better not let a coach or staffer see him doing that.

Maybe actually watching the game he could have learned something that might have helped him do more for the Bruins than his 54 games (10 goals).

7. JORDAN CARON, 2009

His draft slot, 25th overall, was one that should have produced a core player for the Bruins today, a guy good for top-six minutes and production, perhaps in that hard-to-fill second-line left wing slot. Kyle Palmieri, who was selected by Anaheim on the ensuing pick or Ryan O’Reilly, drafted eight picks later by Colorado, would have fit the bill.

But the Bruins brass spent the pick on Caron, a good guy who showed a flash of skill and grit here and there, but mostly a whole lot of nothing. In four-plus B’s seasons, 134 games, he managed 12-16-28 and minus-5.

8. JARED KNIGHT, 2010

When the B’s used second-round picks on Knight (32nd) and Ryan Spooner (45th), an Eastern Conference scout was incredulous in a chat with a reporter. “We can’t believe they used second-round picks on those guys,” he said. “We had them much lower, no better than the fourth.”

Spooner, flawed though he is as an all-round player, has produced points appropriate for his draft slot (117 in 214 games).

But Knight was just a horribly wasted pick, with zero NHL games and just 11 goals in 150 AHL games. He was last seen playing in Denmark, while draft classmates Justin Faulk, Tyler Toffoli and Brendan Gallagher, all picked after him, have become NHL standouts.

99. LINUS ARNESSON, 2013

The Swedish stay-at-home blueliner has been set back by injuries during his three years in North America. Still, he’s done little to justify his second-round (60th) pick, with 1-9-10 totals in 79 AHL games and zero NHL appearances. The pick doesn’t look quite so bad, because the ’13 draft was not real deep in talent.

10. YURO ALEXANDROV, 2006

Chosen 37th, the Russian defenseman wanted no part of North America unless he was guaranteed an NHL job. He played one OK season at Providence (6-13-19) in 2010-11, but headed right back to Russia’s KHL, where he remains a solid player.

The B’s thought they’d found a hidden gem, but the pick proved worthless, and 19 guys drafted after Alexandrov have played 250-plus NHL games.