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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
I am not sure how that worked out with Mathews, Laine and Puljujarvi this year though - I am not sure that all the scouts went over to Europe. However, I do bet that there will be more picks from Europe this year as I would assume there were more scouts in the area this year than normal. Just speculation on my part.
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The best time for NA scouts to cross over and get viewings of the top euros is at the international tournaments. So some of our NA scouts would've seen Matthews, Laine and Puljujarvi at the World Juniors. Some of our NA scouts would've seen all 3 at the U18s in 2015 (USA vs FIN gold medal game from 2015 featured Matthews, Tkachuk, Keller, Laine, Puljujarvi, McAvoy). And some of our NA scouts would've seen Puljujarvi at the U18s this year in 2016.