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Originally Posted by nik-
Will our head of scouting survive another regime change or can we start comparing our success to other teams in the league as opposed to old versions of the Flames?
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Drafts are always hard to evaluate because the most recent ones are not yet long enough to really assess.
But I think, for the quality and number of picks, the scouts have had the team has done a really good job.
BT's first real draft was 2015. He didn't have a big say in 2014, and it's unclear how much influence Burke had. But let's include it
2014
NHLers: 1 (Bennett)
Overall score: BAD
2015:
NHLers: 2.5 (Rasmus, Eat Bread, Kylington)
Overall score: GREAT for not having a 1st round pick they got two NHl players playing up in the lineup.
2016
NHLers: 3 including 2 stars (Tkachuk and Fox)
Potential prospects: 2 or 3 (Parsons, Tuulola, Philips)
Overall score: GREAT (on the backs of the Fox and Dube picks)
2017
NHLers: 1 (Juuso Valimaki)
Potential prospects: 1 (Ruzicka)
Overall score: Too early to tell. Will depend on how Juuso does but he's looking good
2018
NHLers: 0
Potential prospects: 3 (Pospisil, Pettersen, Little Z)
Overall score: Too early to tell but Pettersen and Little Z are trending well above where they were drafted
2019
NHLes: 0
Potential prospects: 3 (Pelletier, Nikolaev, Wolf)
Overall score: Too early to tell. Wolf seems like a great selection at 214
2020 way too early to tell.
I think they've done well absent a lot of high picks or quantity of picks. THN typically does a report every year on draft performance normalized for picks but I can't find it now.