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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The hit rate for college FAs is probably not too different from mid to late round picks.
As others have said, no source of talent should go ignored.
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But they’re ignoring lots of European players to sign these NCAA guys.
We have no Swiss, Danish, or German players in the system.
Two Finns, one of whom is Tuola, who’s never coming back.
Three Swedes, and you don’t hear anything about any of them.
Two Czechs, one Slovak.
Compared to 26 Canadian/US players.
Thank goodness they’ve begun to emphasize taking a Russian every draft.
Like, there are 83M people in Germany - a few of them have to be good at hockey.