from Adam Kimelman of NHL.com,

"I think the trickle down has started to seep into the majority of organizations," Florida Panthers director of scouting Scott Luce said. "I think all organizations are trying to fine-tune what and how they can take the data and how they can use it and better utilize it for decision-making when it comes to making a draft pick at the draft."
As they are at the NHL level, scouts and general managers are reluctant to talk about how they use advanced analytics at the amateur level, or on what information they place the most emphasis. However, most will admit to using analytics as part of their evaluation process.

"The truth of the matter is the people that are using it would rather not talk about it," Arizona Coyotes general manager Don Maloney said. "And we're one of those teams because we think we have something that's valuable to us. But what it is and how we use it, we'd rather keep it to ourselves."

The degree to which teams use advanced stats on the amateur side is muted somewhat by the lack of consistency of information. Data available from a game at the Ontario Hockey League is different from what's available from the Western Hockey League, a Minnesota high school league or a junior league in Russia or Sweden.

"As far as I know or have looked into it, it's even more scattered on the amateur level in how it's collected and recorded and how consistent it is," Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen said. "Until we get to the point where it is [more consistent], the eyeball part of the scouting is still going to be the most important one."

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