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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
What you guys aren't getting is that it is completely irrelevant that the NFL is different than the NHL.
The draft value sheet is about the RELATIVE value of one pick to the next.
All of the details you list as to why the NFL is different than the NHL are - besides being blatantly obvious - completely inconsequential to the relative distribution of talent and the statistical patterns that will inevitably emerge from that.
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Can't compare the NFL and NHL drafts. A 4th round pick in the NFL can be a starter on day one of his first season while a 4th round NHL player faces much steeper odds of being a player and most don't make it period. They relativity only relates to the numerical order. When you trade a 2nd round pick in the NFL you are trading a starting player when you trade a 2nd round pick in the NHL you are trading a player that has less than a 20% chance of ever playing in the NHL. It's simply not the same and can't be compared when it comes to calculating relative values of top 10 picks.
Last week Raiders traded the #3 overall pick to move down to #13 and got only a mid 2nd round pick in return. No team in the NHL is going to trade a top 5 pick for a later 1st round pick to gain just a 2nd round pick. Simply not going to happen.