Teams who claim one of the top spots in the NHL Draft often tend to cash in that pick on some of the best offensive talents in the class. That usually means that the players with the best goal-scoring ability are gone early in the first round, leaving those teams that had better performances in the season to accept a few flaws in the prospects they add to the organization.
Vladislav Firstov is one player who shows good scoring ability, but he won’t be selected in the first round — perhaps not even in the second.