What's happening with Slovakian player drafting? I guess we just saw some kind of spike there in 2022-2023.
2024 - 1 player drafted
2023 - 8 players drafted
2022 - 6 players drafted - number includes Slafkovsky & Nemec
2021 - 1 player drafted
2020 - 2 players drafted
Other weird thing was that 0 Swedes were drafted in the first round.
We have known for years that 2024 would be deserted. 2025 will be a 4-5 Slovak year.
Will be interesting to see if that actually happens. I do like Pobezal, Tomik, Chovan, etc. but a lot can happen between now and then. They’ll have a lot to prove in their draft years.
It was similar in Germany. Got Seider, Stützle, Reichel, Peterka, Bokk, Lutz as legitimate prospects, then a weak 05 birth year only saw Bicker and Panocha picked and both late. Maksy Szuber was sprinkled in as an overager. But no real high-end talent or quantity anymore. Now the 2024 draft had zero Germans. Everyone’s hoping for the 07 group, which is looking a lot stronger, but we’ll see.