Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Draft: Doing it Over Again

In retrospect – and without fail – NCAA players should have been selected higher when reviewing past NHL Drafts.

Draft: Doing it Over Again
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.

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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:


SourceOriginal DraftRe-Evaluated
1994 Draft, NHL.com2 NCAA players in 1st Rd.5 NCAA players in 1st Rd.
2000 Draft, NHL.com7 NCAA players in 1st Rd.8 NCAA players in top 23 picks
2003 Draft, NHL.com9 NCAA players in 1st Rd.10 NCAA players in 1st Rd.
2003 Draft, Sportsnet2 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.com5 NCAA players in top 23 picks6 NCAA players in top 23 picks
2005 Draft, NHL.com8 NCAA players in 1st Rd.10 NCAA players in top 27 picks
2008 Draft, ESPN.com4 NCAA players in 1st Rd.6 NCAA players in 1st Rd.
2008 Draft, NHL.com4 NCAA players in 1st Rd.6 NCAA players in 1st Rd.
2009 Draft, ESPN.com0 NCAA players in top 15 picks4 NCAA players in top 15 picks
2010 Draft, NHL.com8 NCAA players in top 30 picks9 NCAA players in top 29 picks
2010 Draft, ESPN.com8 NCAA players in top 30 picks9 NCAA players in top 23 picks