You know what I noticed is conspicuously absent from our prospect pool? Canadians.
What's this team's aversion to the CHL?
There's so many great CHL prospects coming though in 2019. I can smell the reach from here.
Guys they drafted from the CHL just seemed to rarely work out, whereas they seem to love a Swede and Americans going the college route plus the odd Russian here and there.
Just look at some of the picks that actually worked out over the years
Buchnevich and Anisimov from Russia
Fast and Hagelin from Sweden
Skjei, Kreider, Stepan all Americans who went to NCAA plus Miller who was taken from the US program but did go to the OHL for a year after being drafted
You have to go all the way back to Del Zotto and Staal to find Canadians from the OHL who actually worked out, and then there was Dubinsky and Callahan but they're American