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GDT: LA Kings 2013 NHL Draft

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Face Wash said:
I like your thinking here. Dissecting data to find trends is always a fun thing for us nerds to do. You've sorta missed something though. Most, not all, but most guys who play in the USHL or the US developmental program, while being drafted out of that program, go to college and play. Trevor Lewis is a rare player that didn't follow that route. Paul Ladue didn't either, but virtually everyone else Dean Drafted has. In fact, Lombardi has drafted 11 players that either were in college or went to college after the draft and I don't see much discussion of this in your analysis. And there's no way Dean and his scouts don't know precisely what their future plans are before he drafts them. You might not know, but they defintielty do know and that can tip your rankings in a significant way.

As I said, I like what you've done, don't get me wrong, nice work....but you have to take that obscure, little known organization called the NCAA into account with this as well, IMO.
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Thank you for the feedback and I understand your thought process. It was something I considered :)

What steered me away from ranking based on colleges they are committed to is because of Trevor Lewis and Paul Ladue. Remember that Lewis, too, was committed to an NCAA team, and opted against it because he had decided to go the CHL route. Ladue is spending an extra year in the USHL before going to North Dakota.

Because some players have CHL and NCAA rights, and others may be drafted in the Import Draft, I didn't want to try to make the distinction.

Plus, this is more of an estimation of how much Lombardi currently knows, based on exposure.

Hope that makes sense
 
Telos said:
Yannetti pretty much said it was a pipe dream and they are looking at 57th being our highest pick.
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Yeah I'm not building my hopes up of them moving up. This is the year you hope that with 10 picks in hand, they hit some homeruns and uncover some gems in the later rounds. The good thing about drafting in the mid-late rounds is that you can take a swing and take risks. And hopefully they learned their lesson not to do that and try to appear to be smarter than everyone else in the room when you make that type of attempt with the 4th overall pick ;)
 
Favorite day of the year is tomorrow. If I don't get all 7 rounds of coverage, I'm going to be very upset. I've got a feeling Dean will do his usual flipping of picks to move up/down with what we have later in the draft.
 
The closer we get to the draft, the more I can see DL and co take Slepyshev at or after #148 in the 5th round. LA has 4 picks after 146 and IF Mr Slepy is on the board, DL will nab him.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
Yeah I'm not building my hopes up of them moving up. This is the year you hope that with 10 picks in hand, they hit some homeruns and uncover some gems in the later rounds. The good thing about drafting in the mid-late rounds is that you can take a swing and take risks. And hopefully they learned their lesson not to do that and try to appear to be smarter than everyone else in the room when you make that type of attempt with the 4th overall pick ;)
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I do think we will move up to get another second round pick.
 
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Hopefully that's not Lombardi tomorrow.
 
2003 vs. 2013 draft

Just saw a TSN special on the 2003 draft. Seems like not having a 1st rounder in that draft would be awful, are we in trouble this year?

Weber and Howard were 2nd rounders in 2003 too tho.
 
Too soon to tell. This one seems to be closer than all the years in-between, but every draft every year is hyped. No matter what, we are a contender, trading that pick won us a Stanley Cup, and our core is pretty solid and set for a while. Not in much trouble. Can always trade for some of those players later :P We have three first round picks from 2003 playing for us now.
 
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