Adam Vay, a Hungarian goaltending prospect, rode a three-game hot streak at the 2016 IIHF World Championships in Russia to a two-year entry level contract with the Minnesota Wild, and a top-20 finish in the 3rd Annual Hockey Wilderness Top 25 under 25.
I tend to lean toward looking at fancy stats, rather than the eye test, when evaluating hockey players. I feel like the benefit of analyzing players based on the volume of information available to us hockey fans today results in a stronger case for determining which player might be better than another player. But even in this age of information, there are still a lot of gaps.