I like the fact that we are adding another scout, but I would be very concerned if Woodcroft is being set up as Todd Button's replacement. Woodcroft has what? 4-5 years of amateur scouting experience with a very short track record in amateur scouting.
From what I gathered, Woodcroft prescouted NHL teams (for the purposes of formulating game plans?) for the Wild. With the Capitals, he was the Western US scout. Looking at the Capitals draft history, it looks like that Woodcroft may have had a hand (a big hand) in the Capitals drafting Carlson. With the Kings Woodcroft was an European scout for the Kings but the Kings didn't draft any Europeans during his time except for Nikolay Prokhorkin. There's really not a whole lot to go by here.
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