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It Is Not All About The Numbers When It Comes To Player Assessment At The Draft

06/03/2016 at 9:52am EDT

from Gare Joyce of Sportsnet,

The class featured future all-stars in Drew Doughty and Erik Karlsson and a Calder winner in Tyler Myers. It also featured a bunch of very reliable pros, including Travis Hamonic, Roman Josi, Jake Gardiner and Alex Pietrangelo (who did not participate in several of the tests because of a bout with mono).

Yet when it came to testing, there was Zach Bogosian and then there was the rest of the field.

Almost across the board Bogosian had physical-testing numbers that you’d expect out of a 28-year-old NHL veteran. He was the best in the field in tests for lower-body strength and explosion (numbers in the infographic below). You could understand why Atlanta thought they had come away with the best blue liner in the draft when they landed the man-child third overall. You would be sure that Bogosian’s lower-body strength would translate into dynamic skating.

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