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Old 04-24-2008, 12:30 PM   #544
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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan View Post
Well NHL teams are starting to pay a lot more attention to their combine and the interviewing process that takes place there than they used to. Players who have fared well at the combine that the NHL has held the last two years have been picked earlier than where many others felt they would go. It's only recently that the NHL has used a combine type thing where they bring that many players together to be evaluated in different aspects head to head.
Not to get too far off topic, but I watched a draft special where it followed the St. Louis Blues during the 07' draft and they actually did take the Combine stuff pretty seriously. So you do make a good point. Maybe it's because the NHL Combine stuff is not really talked about openly and the NFL makes a HUGE deal about the results of the combine.
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