I'm curious to see if any other club has drafted ZERO 60 point NHLers in the last decade's worth of drafts. Trying (at random) New York Isles, Buffalo, Washington, and Pittsburgh - and Montreal.
60-point NHLers:
NYI - Bailey, Tavares, Anders Lee, Barzal
BUF - Eichel
WSH - Carlson, Kuznetsov, Forsberg
PIT - none
MTL - none
Other notable NHLers:
NYI - Hamonic, Spurgeon, de Haan, Niederreiter, Nelson, Beauvillier
BUF - Myers, Ennis, McNabb, Ristolainen, Reinhart, Dahlin
WSH - Holtby, Johansson, Orlov, Eakin, Wilson, Burakovsky
PIT - Maatta, Pouliot, Murray, Guentzel
MTL - Gallagher, Galchenyuk, Sergachev, Kotkaniemi
I didn't include older forwards who got less than 31 points, and I think it's fair that I removed Depres from Pitts and Beaulieu from Montreal.
It doesn't look pretty for Montreal, does it?
We're producing worthwhile NHLers worse than Pittsburgh and Washington ffs.
60 points is a bit harsh as one year earlier, Timmins drafted Subban and Pacioretty... And Galchenyuk puy up 56 and Gally put up a 60 points pace.
Why is the 60 points arbitrary line chosen ?
I agree that it is a pathetic record though, no one will disagree.
Anyway, Minnesota is a team with similar drafting, with only Zucker and Granlund producing 60 points in the last decade. (Scandella, Dumba, Tuch, Leddy and Haula are good players though.)
LA has only drafted Doughty (Gifted Doughty @ 2nd overall), whos produced 60 points once, Schenn with Miller, Pearson, Voynov, toffoli being the only other notable picks in that span.
The Coyotes only have Keller who produced 60 points, with Stone, Boedkker, Chychrun, OEL, Domi, Dvorak, Perlini, Fischer being good players.
The Leafs haven't produced such a player outside of the top 10, Kadri, Matthews, Marner and Nylander... Dermott and Rielly are two other good NHL players.
The Stars have produced Rielly Smith who got 60 points last year, aside from that they produced Heiskanen, Chiasson, Lindell, Faksa.
Nashville only drafted Josi who's broken the 60 points barrier but have been good overall with Jones, Ellis, Ekholm...
The Rangers did not draft a player that broke 60, they have however drafted Stepan, Duclair, Skjei, Kreider, Del zotto, miller and Buchnevich.
The Devils have not drafted a 60 points player, good NHLer = Larsson, Bratt, Henrique, Serverson, Kerfoot, Wood, Zacha, Hischier
The Bruins have drafted Seguin and Pasta who've broken the 60 points mark and other good players like McAvoy, Spooner, Hamilton, Heinen, Debrusk, Carlo,
The Hurricanes have drafted Aho and Skinner who've broken 60, and hit on Faulk, Slavin, Pesce, Rask, Lindhilm, Hanifin, Dumoulin.
Chicago has drafted Teravainen whos just broken the 60 points mark last year, and other good NHL players like Schmaltz, Danault, Hayes, Kruger, Shaw, Saad, Hartman and Debrincat.
Detroit drafted Larkin who's broken the 60 points barrier last year, Mantha, Sheahan, Nyquist, our very own Tatar, Jarnkrok, Mrazek, Athanasious, Bertuzzi are other good NHL players.
San José hasn't drafted a 60 points player, the list of player is sad, Demers, Meier, Wingels, Coyle, Nieto, Hertl, Tierney, Labanc, Mueller. In fact, I believe none of them have broken 50 points once aside from Coyle in 14-15.
Some are worse, some are better, most are similar. A lot of it has to do with strength of drafting, Toronto is absolutely terrible outside of the top 10, with only Dermott being relevant in the past decade. Detroit isn't good at all aside from Larking, Chicago is bad but they didn't have good draft power, the Devils are bad, Sanjosé are bad, LA is terribad aside from the gift of Doughty, etc.
