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How Many Players From The Draft Become NHL Players?

06/23/2016 at 12:34pm EDT

from Doninik Luszczyszyn of The Hockey News,

The draft is an exciting time around the NHL. It’s a day of promise and potential. It’s a day where big moves are made. Mostly, it’s a day where the future is shaped and crafted. We won’t truly know what that future holds until it happens, but we can get a sneak peek of it based on the picks that each team holds in the upcoming draft.

Each pick has a value attached to it, and finding out just how much it’s worth means we can get a brief glimpse into the future and see which teams might see improvements in the upcoming seasons. For this year’s draft, here’s how many players are expected to become NHLers for each team based on the picks they own and each draft pick’s past probability of finding an NHLer (200+ games played) from 1988 to 2007.

Seven teams will likely find at least two NHL players from this draft, while most teams probably end up with just one. Quantity matters a lot here as the more picks a team has, the more chances they’ll have to find NHL talent. At the top is Toronto, who’ll have a legit NHLer in Auston Matthews and then maybe one or two more from their next 10 picks.

continue for more and some graphs to prove the poiht...

On a side note, Dave Davis of The Sabres Observer at KK will be at the NHL Draft, so make sure to keep an eye on his reports...

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