Well, I think the Flames probably think this guy is the BPA — although considering their drafting out of Europe under Button's tenure, I'm not so sure that's a good thing. It's been rough.
Yeah, I was trying to think of the late round gems and they all north american. At a loss trying to think of a late round European player off the top of my head.
pretty silly to assume that a player won't work out because prior draft picks from that area didn't work out, but I guess people need something to talk about
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pretty silly to assume that a player won't work out because prior draft picks from that area didn't work out, but I guess people need something to talk about
Fair to say that there's some evidence for that though. We seem to hit a lot more on the North American players than we do in Europe.
You could argue Kylington and Granlund both "worked."
Between 2008 and 2021 they've only drafted 15 guys from overseas. 9 in the first 4 rounds, 2 of those have become regular NHLers (and 4 of them were drafted in the last 3 years, so early to say yet).
2/15 is a success rate of 13.3%
Out of 75 other picks, 15 have become regular NHLers, so 20%.
So, not terribly off the mark when you consider the fact that the 20% includes 3 top 10 picks from NA. Definitely not in "fire every overseas scout" territory.
In fact (since it's with the topic and all), if you just look at the 2nd round, the Flames succeed with 67% of overseas 2nd rounders and only 22% of NA 2nd rounders since 2008, so... y'know.
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