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Originally Posted by IamNotKenKing
Yes. That is exactly why Ruzicka is a 4th rounder, but could have been higher in retrospect.
Which player should they have drafted at 109th instead, and why?
And here are the average stats of ALL players taken in the 2017 draft as of today:
Average NHL Career Games: 126
Average NHL Career Goals: 19
Average NHL Career Points: 53
So as the 109th/217 players taken, he is pretty dang close to having the average stats of all drafted players, but he actually has the 38th most points in his draft class of the 102 players who have played a game, so I would put that at well above average for those actually playing.
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N.B. those are the average NHL career games played, goals and points of
players who have actually played a game in the NHL to this point. 115 out of 217 players selected in the 2017 Entry Draft have never played an NHL game, including 36/108 players selected before Ruzicka.
Thus, the fact that Ruzicka has even played a game makes him "above average".
The averages (mean) including for all the guys who've never played a game are:
59.4 games played
9.1 goals
25 points
The median stats are... zero games played, zero goals, zero assists.