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Draft: Doing it Over Again
In retrospect - and without fail - NCAA players should have been selected higher when reviewing past NHL Drafts.

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A third-round pick originally, Jonathan Quick would be No. 4 overall in a re-draft from 2005.

A popular pastime among hockey news organizations is to look back at drafts five, 10 or 15 years ago and “re-draft” them – see where the selections should have fallen, given how the players’ careers have played out.

More: Class of 2015 | 2015 NCAA NHL Draft Guide (.pdf)

Invariably – no matter the year or the news organization – NCAA players were under-represented in the original draft.

Here's a look at those re-drafts in recent years, including reconsiderations of the 2000, 2005 and 2010 drafts by NHL.com in the past week:

Source

Original Draft

Re-Evaluated

1994 Draft, NHL.com

2 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

5 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

2000 Draft, NHL.com

7 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

8 NCAA players in top 23 picks

2003 Draft, NHL.com

9 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

10 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

2003 Draft, Sportsnet

2 NCAA players in top 11 picks; 9 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

4 NCAA players in top 9 picks; 11 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

2004 Draft, NHL.com

5 NCAA players in top 23 picks

6 NCAA players in top 23 picks

2005 Draft, NHL.com

8 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

10 NCAA players in top 27 picks

2008 Draft, ESPN.com

4 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

6 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

2008 Draft, NHL.com

4 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

6 NCAA players in 1st Rd.

2009 Draft, ESPN.com

0 NCAA players in top 15 picks

4 NCAA players in top 15 picks

2010 Draft, NHL.com

8 NCAA players in top 30 picks

9 NCAA players in top 29 picks

2010 Draft, ESPN.com

8 NCAA players in top 30 picks

9 NCAA players in top 23 picks