I think scouts have the ability to see NHL prospects to play a lot more games than NFL prospects. A hockey season probably has 4 to 5 times as many games for scouts to see a player and evaluate. If a hockey player has one bad game, there is still a strong possibility for a scout to see him when he has a good one, not to mention lots of different situations. In Football, with so many teams playing on weekends, it is tough to see more than a game or two of a prospect unless that prospect it taped. And even then there may not be the opportunity for a full evaluation when certain positions may only get the ball a handfull of times in a game.
I think the interview process is very important in both leagues, but hockey has just so many more opportunities to see a player that it makes a head-to-head skills evaluation less important
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