[Chace McCallum] The NHL draft has become dramatically more efficient over time. The odds of a pick making the NHL has been steadily climbing atop the draft for finding NHL players
The NHL draft has become dramatically more efficient over time. The odds of a pick making the NHL has been steadily climbing atop the draft for finding NHL players pic.twitter.com/6iGFzGAMU4
— Chace McCallum (@CMhockey66) July 7, 2023
by seeldoger47
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>[Accompanying the change is that top picks have on average, become shorter and higher scoring over the same time period](https://twitter.com/CMhockey66/status/1677292919982551040)
Really doesn’t seem like teams even have to do any real scouting anymore. The work is pretty much all done for them by the scouting services. They just have to read the reports, interview the players to weed out the bad attitudes, then rank them based on how they think they fill the team’s needs. The actual drafts are following the mock drafts so closely now that a guy taken more than 10 spots out of his pre draft ranking in the first round is considered a major story.