vanuck
Now with 100% less Benning!
- Dec 28, 2009
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As I said at the time, they said a bunch of things that are theoretically correct, but then completely failed to understand that MacEwen was the *opposite* of what they were arguing.
Like, the fact that he was such a bad player at such a low level in his draft year is a point in his favour, not against it, as it speaks to how sharp his development curve had been since then. And it’s the opposite of a Yan-Pavel Laplante, who was a 3rd rounder in his draft year and never improved.
They got locked into a ‘this is just a big overager dominating because he’s old for his level’ stance without looking deeper to see that actually he just got to this level, actually his development curve was through the roof, and actually he had a skillset that really projected to higher levels.
The ideal state that I'd love for our CHL scouting to get to is to be able to weed out the obvious no-hopers who can't produce while allowing for our process to be able to pick up on someone like MacEwen who was overlooked in his draft year but has had a very steep growth curve since then. Essentially, blending the best parts of the eye test and statistical analysis together to extract maximum value from the draft. I don't know if we'll ever get there but to me that's the dream.