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Originally Posted by Samonadreau
Interesting to here them so high on euros/swedes this draft. Our European drafting (junior scouting) has been abysmal of late.
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To be fair, outside of Ilya Nikolaev in round 3 in 2019, the last time they took a European(playing overseas) in the top 3 round was Granlund in 2011. Any late round pick that hits is the exception not the rule.
It is still possible our European scouting is bad but I don't think we know enough to say it is for sure.
Edit: forgot Oliver Kylington. Still some hope there but end of second round picks probably don't turn into much and it was a good gamble. I just don't think we have enough data to confirm if the scouts were bad or we just don't pick them enough/high enough to get a read on it.