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Originally Posted by Boreal
Fair enough.
McKenzie only does the first few rounds. Some sort of similar criteria to evaluate the later rounds would be insightful, especially when actually evaluating a teams draft performance. It doesn’t even need to be as rigorous, or require the same depth and breadth of connections.
When assessing a teams ability to evaluate talent, a connection to pro scouting & development would also be of value.
This would directly speak to the strength of a team to acquire players elsewhere, with minimal risk of overpayment. In team building there is always a stronger connections to a players 1st team.
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I suspect it is harder to extract reliable information re. how teams view the later rounds - as that's where the lists really start to differ and teams will be very worried about "their guy" getting leaked out. Even this year we heard about how the Flames stepped up to draft the Russian goalie out of fear someone else would jump in and get him.
Bob gets his insights on the first largely because the top 30 (which is really where he focuses) is more predictable for the most part. so when a team shares the players they are interested in - they aren't giving away much.
Though we also now know that either Bob doesn't get anything from CBJ or what they do give him is false!