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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
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.
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Burke had THE say in 2014. Fires Feaster then has amateur scout meeting where he sets attributes big, leaders, character
Go back to post draft interviews with Button on 2014 or any others. He literally says the attributes: Swedish Mattson "big, leader", Hunter Smith. This was all Burke
Feaster was about hockey sense. On Kanzig "we like his brain"
2015, 2016 taking Mangiapane etc "skill" whatever Treliving emphasized