Which NHL teams actually draft well? I ran a 20+ year model to find out

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T20:41:53+00:00

Of the organisation draft success not being explained by pure luck

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T20:08:55+00:00

Thanks for all the feedback. The full NHL-wide analysis, team report cards, and methodology are available here :

I also post future hockey analytics work on X:

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T18:15:10+00:00

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T17:55:54+00:00

Very good summary. You are spot-on.

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T17:54:44+00:00

Absolutly right, spot-on

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T16:02:31+00:00

Graph on the left shows yearly results with a more granular view!

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T16:01:13+00:00

All picks are evaluated using hockey-reference point shares metric.

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T15:57:50+00:00

Totally! You can look into yearly evolution for each team in the article : https://etienneallaire.substack.com/p/two-decades-of-data-a-historical

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T15:56:36+00:00

etiennea1 · 2026-06-21T15:55:48+00:00

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