Today’s draft week time-waster is a simple one: Which entry draft produced the best class at each of the five positions?
That’s a nice easy one to work with, right? I’m not even sure we need the traditional ground rules, other than to note that we’re doing the entry draft era (meaning back to 1979), and that we’re not counting left and right-shooting defenseman as different positions because we’re not lunatics.
There is one question to figure out before we can start, though: What exactly does it mean to be the “best” draft class for a position?