After an interminable wait, the 2020 NHL draft has come and gone, and is now several weeks behind us. Players know which teams they’re headed to, leaving us to evaluate each team’s performance. To wrap up a long year of draft coverage at Silver Seven, this post (plus another one tomorrow) will take a by-the-numbers look at the draft to answer a few key questions: which teams performed the best? Who didn’t do as well? Which players were the biggest steals, and which were the biggest reaches?
Part one will be divided into four sections:
- An explanation of my methodology and recent tweaks
- The biggest steals and the biggest reaches
- Some undrafted players to watch
- And an assessment of the accuracy of various lists
Methodology
To tackle these questions I’ll be basing this post on the consolidated rankings, a grouping of 50 reliable public sources, which aims to synthesize an opinion of which players are most highly valued at the day of the draft.