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NHL teams harvest NHL quality players by watching them play, talking to coaches who worked with the player before AND by applying development techniques and protocols after the draft.
They don’t use random fan boi stats. I mean Kucherov probably was a better player than Witherspoon, go figure.
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Of course they do. Chris Snow is involved with the draft process as the analytics guy. I think his sway in the organization is pretty big at this point.