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Originally Posted by zoom
what is the 'list of 72'? Assuming the players the Flames wanted?
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On the Fan before the draft, one of the Flames brass (Button, IIRC) was saying that they had 72 players on their main list, ranked in numerical order. These were players that they thought highly enough of to send scouts from other regions to look at them, so they had multiple viewings by multiple scouts and could fairly rank them against each other.
After that, the scouts from each region had their own regional lists, which were not ranked numerically. Each player on those lists was labelled according to the kind of player he was: skill forward, bottom-6 forward, PMD, what have you. Usually the main numbered list is used up by about the fourth round, and they use the regional lists to make the later picks.
HTH.