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Originally Posted by Canada 02

some one should look at the declared winners and losers from 5 years ago to see how close or far off the evaluations can be hours/days after a draft

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ry-team#slide1

With total NHL games played at this point, and average # of games played.

Grade A+

• New York Islanders: Michael Dal Colle, Josh Ho-Sang, Ilya Sorokin, Linus Soderstrom, Devon Toews, Kyle Schempp, Lukas Sutter. 133 GP, 19 GP average.
• Vancouver: Jake Virtanen, Jared McCann, Thatcher Demko, Nikita Tryamkin, Gustav Forsling, Kyle Pettit, Mackenze Stewart. 665 GP, 95 GP average.

Grade A

• Arizona: Brendan Perlini, Ryan MacInnis, Christian Dvorak, Anton Karlsson, Michael Bunting, Dysin Mayo, David Westlund, Jared Fiegl, Edgars Kulda. 380 GP, 42 GP average.
• Los Angeles: Adrian Kempe, Roland McKeown, Alex Lintuniemi, Michael Amadio, Steven Johnson, Alec Dillon, Jake Marchment, Matthew Mistele, Spencer Watson, Jacob Middleton. 280 GP, 28 GP average.
• Nashville: Kevin Fiala, Vladislav Kamenev, Jack Dougherty, Justin Kirkland, Viktor Arvidsson, Joonas Lyytinen, Aaron Irving. 529 GP, 76 GP average.
• St. Louis: Robby Fabbri, Ivan Barbashev, Maxim Letunov, Jake Walman, Ville Husso, Austin Poganski, Jaedon Descheneau, Chandler Yakimowicz, Samuel Blais, Dwyer Tschantz. 361 GP, 36 GP average.

Grade A-

• Buffalo: Sam Reinhart, Brendan Lemieux, Eric Cornel, Vaclav Karabacek, Jonas Johansson, Brycen Martin, Maxwell Willman, Christopher Brown, Victor Olofsson. 409 GP, 45 GP average.

Grade B+

• Dallas: Julius Honka, Brett Pollock, Alexander Peters, Michael Prapavessis, Brent Moran, Miro Karjalainen, Aaron Haydon, John Nyberg, Patrick Sanvido. 87 GP, 10 GP average.
• Edmonton: Leon Draisaitl, William Lagesson, Zachary Nagelvoort, Liam Coughlin, Tyler Vesel, Keven Bouchard. 351 GP, 59 GP average.
• Winnipeg: Nikolaj Ehlers, Jack Glover, Chase De Leo, Nelson Nogier, Clinston Franklin, Pavel Kraskovsky, Matt Ustaski. 312 GP, 45 GP average.

Grade B

• Anaheim: Nick Ritchie, Marcus Pettersson, Brandon Montour, Matthew Berkovitz, Ondrej Kase. 690 GP, 138 GP average.
• Columbus: Sonny Milano, Ryan Collins, Elvis Merzlikins, Blake Siebenaler, Julien Pelletier, Tyler Bird, Olivier LeBlanc. 70 GP, 10 GP average.
• Florida: Aaron Ekblad, Jayce Hawryluk, Juho Lammikko, Joe Wegwerth, Miguel Fidler, Hugo Fagerblom. 473 GP, 79 GP average.
• Montreal: Nikita Scherbak, Brett Lernout, Nikolas Koberstein, Daniel Audette, Hayden Hawkey, Jake Evans. 58 GP, 10 GP average.
• Pittsburgh: Kasperi Kapanen, Sam Lafferty, Anthony Angello, Jaden Lindo, Jeff Taylor. 133 GP, 27 GP average.
• San Jose: Nikolay Goldobin, Julius Bergman, Noah Rod, Alex Schoenborn, Dylan Sadowy, Alexis Vanier, Rourke Chartier, Kevin Labanc. 351 GP, 44 GP average.
• Tampa Bay: Anthony DeAngelo, Dominik Masin, Jonathan MacLeod, Brayden Point, Ben Thomas, Cristiano Digiacinto, Cameron Darcy. 361 GP, 52 GP average.
• Toronto: William Nylander, Rinat Valiev, John Piccinich, Dakota Joshua, Nolan Vesey, Pierre Engvall. 251 GP, 42 GP average.

Grade B-

• Detroit: Dylan Larkin, Dominic Turgeon, Christoffer Ehn, Chase Perry, Julius Vahatalo, Axel Holmstrom, Alexander Kadeykin. 387 GP, 55 GP average.
• Ottawa: Andreas Englund, Miles Gendron, Shane Eiserman, Kelly Summers, Francis Perron. 9 GP, 2 GP average.

Grade C+

• Chicago: Nick Schmaltz, Matheson Iacopelli, Beau Starrett, Frederik Olofsson, Luc Snuggerud, Andreas Soderberg, Dylan Sikura, Ivan Nalimov, Jack Ramsey. 217 GP, 24 GP average.
• Minnesota: Alex Tuch, Louis Belpedio, Kaapo Kahkonen, Tanner Faith, Pontus Sjalin, Chase Lang, Reid Duke, Pavel Jenys. 161 GP, 20 GP average.
• New Jersey: John Quenneville, Joshua Jacobs, Connor Chatham, Ryan Rehill, Joey Dudek, Brandon Baddock. 34 GP, 6 GP average.
• Philadelphia: Travis Sanheim, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Mark Friedman, Oskar Lindblom, Radel Fazleev, Jesper Pettersson. 245 GP, 41 GP average.
• Washington: Jakub Vrana, Vitek Vanecek, Nathan Walker, Shane Gersich, Steven Spinner, Kevin Elgestal. 191 GP, 32 GP average.

Grade C

• Boston: David Pastrnak, Ryan Donato, Danton Heinen, Anders Bjork, Emil Johansson. 600 GP, 120 GP average.
  Calgary: Sam Bennett, Mason McDonald. Hunter Smith, Brandon Hickey, Adam Ollas Mattsson, Austin Carroll. 312 GP, 52 GP average.
  Colorado: Conner Bleackley, Kyle Wood, Nicholas Magyar, Alexis Pepin, Anton Lindholm, Maximilian Pajpach, Julien Nantel. 62 GP, 9 GP average.

Grade D

• Carolina: Haydn Fleury, Alex Nedeljkovic, Warren Foegele, Josh Wesley, Lucas Wallmark, Clark Bishop, Kyle Jenkins. 288 GP, 41 GP average.
• New York Rangers: Brandon Halverson, Keegan Iverson, Ryan Mantha, Igor Shesterkin, Richard Nejezchleb, Daniel Walcott, Tyler Nanne. 1 GP, 0 GP average.

Strictly looking at a team's ability to draft NHLers, New York Islanders with an A+ is way off, Vancouver was accurate, Boston was criminally underrated, Anaheim should have been an A/A+ grade as well. Carolina didn't deserve a D rating, whereas the Rangers absolutely did.

Dallas, Columbus, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, New Jersey, and Colorado all did quite poorly, should be Cs/Ds in retrospection.