News Article: Rick Pracey Hired as Director of Amateur Scouting

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Its a terrible graph.

Given that we drafted 1,1,1,7,3,1,4,22,10,8 and 14th you would think that given our draft position we would see a lot of guys with high games played.

It doesn't factor in teams with a bunch of picks either who just throw a lot of darts at the dart board.

Like Tampa Bay is #1 with Connolly at 536 games, Gudas at 682 games, Namestnikov at 630 games, Drouin at 485 and Paquette at 448. Thats 2,781 games of garbage. I'm not suggesting they didn't do a good job drafting (because they did) but look at GP over a specific range is a terrible way at grading someone's draft.

It doesn’t include any picks in the first 2 rounds, its all late picks and Oilers started trading/losing a fair number of those picks (compensation/penalties) from the mid-to-tail end of that time period. Drafting was not good during the early DoD But it did improve.

Oilers drafting was underrated for a while with late round picks panNing out regularly; its usually just that our management was too incompetent to recognize talent under their nose and shipped them off before giving them a chance. Lots of Oesterle’s out there in the world.

 

[TheNumber4]

Went back and read the Tyler Wright is hired thread from 4 years ago. I must say Wrights crappy and downtrending Draft classes from Detroit, sound a lot like Pracey’s crappy and downtrending draft classes from Philly.