According to the spreadsheet just 7 of the 96 players signed with their OHL team. How many of the 7 are actually playing in the OHL? Boomhower and Curran are not.
Go away.. the good ones can be taken in draft as always anyways the year after their draft year....I know a few guys that scout and they don’t do a whole lot of scouting in major midget maybe a handful of visits through year is all they do to make a bit of a listSo, does this draft get held again in 2018, or does it go away this year?
Gotta think the OHL was hoping for the OHL 18U draft having more of an impact than this.....
Yantsis 4 goals 6 assists.
Bobber: I don't think Yantsis was ever drafted as he signed as a FA.
Rangers had to battle the league over signing Yantsis because they wanted him in the draft so basically the same thing. Rangers jumped the gun and signed him. Talked to his parents during his first game in KW.Yantsis was not drafted in this
KIT’s picks were:
1st: Kobe Desmond
2nd: Reece Bolton
3rd: Jackson Norlock
4th: Anthony Tremonte
5th: Ben Addison
And those 5 have combined to play 0 seconds in the OHL
Rangers had to battle the league over signing Yantsis because they wanted him in the draft so basically the same thing. Rangers jumped the gun and signed him. Talked to his parents during his first game in KW.
That was my point. Yantsis would have been in that first draft if the Rangers hadn't jumped in ahead of time and signed him. They knew he was going to be in that draft. The picks mentioned above were the kids drafted by the Rangers but they were proactive taking Yantsis early. The league tried to stop them but they has no legs to stand on. I do see the point that he wasn't in the following draft but would have been if not for the Rangers and still probably had more points than was mentioned by Generalsupdates if drafted by another squad. Six of one half dozen of the other.Yantsis played for Kitchener in the 2016-2017 season, well before the U18 draft.
That was my point. Yantsis would have been in that first draft if the Rangers hadn't jumped in ahead of time and signed him. They knew he was going to be in that draft. The picks mentioned above were the kids drafted by the Rangers but they were proactive taking Yantsis early. The league tried to stop them but they has no legs to stand on. I do see the point that he wasn't in the following draft but would have been if not for the Rangers and still probably had more points than was mentioned by Generalsupdates if drafted by another squad. Six of one half dozen of the other.
Yantsis is still an outlier but you want to win this so I accept your argumentBut he wasn't drafted, so it's really not "6 of one, half dozen of the other" because this is about who was drafted in the U18 draft, not who would've been picked if they weren't already in the OHL.... Lol