2020 NHL Draft

[herman]

Round

Pick

Player Name

Position

Draft Year

Height

Weight

League

1

15

Rodion Amirov

RW

2020 (D-0)

6'1"

182 lbs

KHL

2

59

Roni Hirvonen

C

2020 (D-0)

5'9"

170 lbs

Liiga

3

64

Topi Niemela

RD

2020 (D-0)

6'0"

163 lbs

Liiga

4

106

Artur Akhtyamov

G

2020 (D-0)

6'2"

170 lbs

MHL

4

122

William Villeneuve

RD

2020 (D-0)

6'1"

181 lbs

QMJHL

5

137

Dmitri Ovchinnikov

L/C/R

2020 (D-0)

5'11"

163 lbs

KHL

6

168

Veeti Miettinen

RW

2020 (D-0)

5'9"

159 lbs

Finnish Jr.

6

177

Axel Rindell

RD

2018 (D+2)

6'0"

176 lbs

Liiga

6

180

Joe Miller

C/RW

2020 (D-0)

5'9"

146 lbs

USHS

7

189

John Fusco

RD

2019 (D+1)

5'11"

181 lbs

USHS

7

195

Wyatt Schingoethe

C

2020 (D-0)

5'11"

201 lbs

USHL

7

213

Ryan Tverberg

C

2020 (D-0)

5'11"

174 lbs

OJHL

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Might as well!

This thread is a good start to acquaint oneself with players that aren't Lafrenierre and Byfield

Today I finished up a 6 part series for @PPPLeafs looking at #nhldraft2020 eligible players. I've never written anything like this before, either in topic or in sheer work required.

Here is a thread of every article and a thanks to the people that helped me write them!

— Nicholas RobertSTAN (@brigstew86) May 7, 2020

[Bender]

Might as well!

This thread is a good start to acquaint oneself with players that aren't Lafrenierre and Byfield

Today I finished up a 6 part series for @PPPLeafs looking at #nhldraft2020 eligible players. I've never written anything like this before, either in topic or in sheer work required.

Here is a thread of every article and a thanks to the people that helped me write them!

— Nicholas RobertSTAN (@brigstew86) May 7, 2020

Welp... We don't have a pick so should we care? Lol

[CarltonTheBear]

Welp... We don't have a pick so should we care? Lol

You're not excited to see what our 7 late round picks turn up?

[herman]

Just going to keep a running tally of names/games I liked as I slowly go through this massive list of articles with massive lists of player profiles

Centres
Colby Ambrosio
Jaromir Pytlik

Wingers
Yegor Sokolov
Ben McCartney
Brett Berard
Alex Laferriere
Zayde Wisdom

Defense
Alex Cotton
Yan Kuznetsov
Mitchell Miller looks like I didn't do my due diligence here
William Villaneuve

Goalies

[herman]

"Our psychologist said, 'Don't draft him. He's going to be a mass murderer.' "

"The kid controlled the room like Hannibal Lecter."

Hair-raising prospect interviews are one example of the crazy tales scouts tell about their jobs. @THNMattLarkin's story:https://t.co/AdevL2huRs

— The Hockey News (@TheHockeyNews) May 27, 2020

These are so weird

[CarltonTheBear]

Articles like this bug me. Name the players or this just sounds like fiction!

For the record, the guy who took a #2 on his girlfriends car was Kevin Hayes.

[herman]

Articles like this bug me. Name the players or this just sounds like fiction!

For the record, the guy who took a #2 on his girlfriends car was Kevin Hayes.

I'm curious about the guy who went to team video analysis meetings in the nude.

[Dappleganger]

Articles like this bug me. Name the players or this just sounds like fiction!

For the record, the guy who took a #2 on his girlfriends car was Kevin Hayes.

I'm curious about the guy who went to team video analysis meetings in the nude.

In my defence, they did tell me a suit was optional.

[herman]

New Post: Understanding the Four Levels of Scouting, an important mental model, and their implications. (Thanks to @ByronMBader for his viz tool)https://t.co/AXPwJ6mjwi

— Jack Han (@JhanHky) May 27, 2020

My biggest takeaway working with elite coaches such as Darryl Belfry and Adam Nicholas (StrideEnvy) is that player development cannot be disassociated from scouting.

Players with solid junior production sometimes don’t translate because of technical weaknesses never addressed by the teams that draft them.

Players who score in minor pro sometimes can’t crack an NHL roster because their patterns of play are easily neutralized by high-level defenders.

Players with modest production in lower league occasionally play better against tougher competition because of their ability to leverage stronger linemates.

Happens all the time.

WOW Just throwing bombs at Edmonton and Buffalo sheesh

[herman]

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You will not believe who comes in at the top of the list of teams

[Bender]

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You will not believe who comes in at the top of the list of teams

That actually is kind of surprising.

[Deebo]

There was some quantity sure, quality... not so much.

Boyes, Kadri and Steen were the only forwards who averaged over .5 PPG in their career.
Gunnarsson was the only real top 4D.
Rask was the only quality starter and then there was Reimer.

To make things worse, only Kadri and Reimer of those that had their best years with the Leafs and got nothing notable in return for the rest. Although they were able to turn Schenn into JVR

Basically, 10 years of drafting got them Kadri & JVR as top 6 forwards, fringe starter Reimer, and a bunch of nothing. The team results have reflected that.

[Nik]

Please remember that this analysis focused purely on finding NHL players. The quality of the players was not taken into consideration at all, so a player who plays 100 NHL games on the fourth line is worth the same as a Hall of Fame player.

This is from the article. I appreciate that he's upfront about it but it feels like maybe it also warrants a mention that Detroit and Toronto were, by the mid point of the decade, also two fairly old teams that probably had more opportunities for fringe NHLers from the draft than other teams.

[herman]

Thommie Bergman picks bringing huge swings as well: Carl Gunnarsson, Anton Stralman, Leo Komarov, Viktor Stalberg all came out of the 6th and 7th rounds. 2006 was a tidal wave of adequate NHLers from our picks (6/7 played over 100 games).

[Hobbes]

Gunnarsson was the only real top 4D.

Think a case could be made for Stralman too.