I think that chart really highlights how this has no bearing on success, really. Sure the lightning have great results and are high on the list. But Columbus is also high on the list. And Ottawa. Both do not have great results. Then there’s Colorado in last, despite very good results. And the Caps and Blues in that last column too.
In all fairness, it's 10 years. Lot of those teams have only started having success recently. A lot of them haven't had any success at all. For the longest time, Colorado stunk. For the longest time, the Caps were close but not that close, and the Blues have sucked through those years too. I think it shows that it only takes one year, or one player, or combination of players, to get hot at the right time, have chemistry, or just be better than where you drafted them or get better, to have success. It more shows drafting success than pro success for sure though, I mean look at most of these teams cupboards in the right column. With the exception of maybe Buffalo (based on 1st round picks), ARI (mostly 1st round picks) and possibly Detroit/Montreal depending on how you consider their players to be prospects or not, the cupboards are pretty dry for most of the teams.
Well, BA came from St. Louis and they did not fair much better than the Coyotes considering we didn't have a scouting dept.
The Blues hit on their 1sts, or traded them away and hit on those instead. Most of their later picks, at least those that I can recall, were traded after panning out but not really having a place on the team or for reacquiring assets. It actually gets a lot better when you consider their top 60, they've almost always either hit or it's too early to write them off. Over half of this chart is Parayko and Binnington though, which is pretty damn good. If you expanded the chart to 2008 you'd also get Lehtera and Allen. Perron was in 07. Bishop and Reaves in 05. That's insanely good pick rate considering the average 3rd rounder will likely never play, let alone some of those guys are or will be close to 1k games.
)I was referring to the chart. Look at Tampa for comparison, or Colorado. Tampa you could understand as they draft very well, but Colorado surprised me. The chart said third round and after, so it doesn't matter the names you listed here, many teams did better than the Blues.
where are our key scouts from? Didn't we poach from Colorado and Tampa?
Yes, many teams did better, but like RT said that's not a complete indication of success or not. The Caps and Blues are both at the bottom of that list and both won cups. Colorado is last and won a cup. Boston is another team that is only average and won one. So you can't base success solely off of this list. Drafting has been getting a lot more consistent over the years in the quality that's in the draft, but this chart also somewhat cherry picks the years, as I said earlier if you go back from 08-05 the Blues have several other players that would likely put them over 2k- and even as it is now, the most recent 3-4 drafts it's too early to tell whether those players have panned out yet. It's impressive alone that Parayko and Binnington make up over half of the games in that graphic for the Blues.
Him and Fantilli are gonna be deadly for us.
