Aaron Vickers
FCHockey
fuzzerson said:And this is why I wish the draft age was 19.
Here's what a former GM said about raising the draft age, when I asked him about it:
I don’t know. I don’t know what the goal is to raise the draft age. If you think you get to evaluate players a longer period of time before having to select them, that’s a fair point, but I can tell you that history shows that there’s no correlation of a higher draft age and players failing. Whether it’s a 20-year-old draft or an 18-year-old draft, the same percentage of players do not make it for different reasons. I think that when you start looking at it again, whether they’re 18 or 20, other than baseball there’s no business in the world, that 18, 19, 20 years olds to come and contribute at the pro level.
So while you do get a longer time to evaluate players, it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to boom.