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Originally Posted by ricardodw
When I saw Boedeker so far down the list I wondered why he was a #8 pick overall.....
He had a great playoff season .
The Flames prospects that have been successful ... Backlund, Baertschi, Reinhart, Brodie all did significantly better in the playoffs (albeit as 19 year olds - after they were drafted) than regular seasons.
Lindholm had 4 playoff games for Brynas in 2013 and had no goals or assists (4 minutes in penalties doubling his regular season total) and was a -5. His team that finished 8 lost to the the first place team in 4 straight games getting outscored 20-4.
Monahan as a 17 year old had 15 points in 18 playoff games a significant fall off from his 78 pts in 62 regular season games.
Nurse (scoring d-man) had 4 pts in his 6 playoff games very close to his --- 41 in 68 regular season games.
Nichushkin had 9 pts in 25 KHL playoff games .... only played 18 regular season games and had 6 pts
Barkov 5 pts in 5 playoff games --- same pace as 48 pts in 52 reg season games
Mackinnon and Drouin have both stepped up to be better in the playoffs than regular season.
No clear cut winner for the Flames pick although Lindholm had an incredible bad playoff experience.
Just for interest sake RHN was better in regular season than playoffs.
Jeff Skinner 20 goals in 20 OHL playoff games.. better playoffs than regular season
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Any scout making major draft decisions based on puny samples like that should probably be out of a job. It doesn't take much to find a long list of guys who've excelled in the playoffs as NHLers who had mediocre playoff numbers in other leagues:
-Giroux's playoff scoring was about 25-30% lower than his regular season totals in his 17 and 18 year old years. The next year he put up 51 pts in 19 games in the OHL playoffs and now has some of the best playoff numbers in the NHL over the last few years.
-Getzlaf's WHL playoff numbers were a joke (8 points in 12 games in his 17 and 18 year old seasons) relative to his regular season numbers.
-Kopitar put up 0 points in 10 games in the SEL playoffs prior to being drafted.
On the other hand you've got a guy like Sergei Kostitsyn who saw a 60% increase in his production in the postseason in his first OHL season that saw him put up 37 points in 19 games as an 18 year old. His NHL playoff production (especially in the last several years) has been terrible.
There are so many variables in a single playoff run (nagging injuries, the teams they face, performance of teammates, simple luck, etc.) that drawing any vast conclusions from them is foolhardy.