Breakdown of first two rounds of draft

2022-07-11

So I thought I would take a look at who appeared to get the best value in the draft if we assume that the NHL got all of their picks right since they spend millions of dollars scouting and we just spend some time googling. The way this will work is this: Shane Wright was picked 1st overall in our league by Chicago. As we all know, he fell to Seattle at 4. Thus, Chicago gets a score of -3 because they drafted him 3 spots earlier than the NHL. With that information, let's look at which team got the most and least value for their picks, and which players rose and fell the most. I'm just looking at the RHL's first 2 rounds since that is what we did without the NHL's help.

BEST PICK

Arizona's selection of Maveric Lamoureux.

Maveric was drafted out of the QMJHL at 56 by Arizona, with the 24th pick in the second round. In the NHL he was selected 29th overall, remarkably also by Arizona. This was RHL's Arizona's only pick in the first two rounds and looks to be a home run based on value drafting him nearly a full round later. At 6' 7", the worst case scenario for Arizona is he can play on their basketball team and maybe win a championship that way.

In addition, his parents still love each other https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/maveric-lamoureuxs-parents-make-out-at-2022-nhl-draft-in-viral-video/

WORST PICK

Columbus Blue Jackets selection of Vladimir Grudinin

Grudinin was selected in the RHL at 63 out of the Russian junior league with the second to last pick of the second round. He was selected in the NHL by Carolina at pick 156, deep in the 5th round. Scouting reports had him as a defenseman with good 4 way movement but having some difficulty gathering loose pucks. He also supposedly has great hands and is able to steal the puck and cut off lanes with ease. I've seen him project as a second line defensemen and as someone who doesn't really have it with some concerns about translating to the NHL. Only time will tell if Columbus missed at 63 or Carolina got an absolute steal at 156.

Below is the teams with the sum of their draft value

Row Labels	Sum of Net Value of Pick	Average of RHL Pick	Count of Player
ARI	27	56	1
BOS	-1	47.5	2
BUF	-22	44	2
CAGF	-4	15	1
CAR	3	28	2
CBJ	-122	41	3
CGF	-34	28	5
CHI	-13	26	3
COL	16	43	5
DET	-5	33.5	2
EDM	-20	46.25	4
FLA	15	29	1
LAK	-33	54.5	2
MIN	12	28	1
MTL	2	4	1
NJD	-67	33.33333333	3
NYI	-9	21	1
NYR	9	16	1
OTT	-11	30	2
PHI	-10	38	2
PIT	-20	21	2
SEA	-36	62	1
SJS	-39	58	1
STL	-12	9.333333333	3
TBL	-4	24.5	2
TOR	-13	27	2
VAN	8	38	4
VGK	2	7	1
WSH	-13	16.75	4
Grand Total	-394	32.5	64

And player by player breakdown

RHL Pick	Team Selected	Player	NHL Pick for player	Net Value of Pick
1	CHI	Shane Wright	4	-3
2	CGF	Slafkovsky	1	1
3	WSH	Cooley	3	0
4	MTL	Nemec	2	2
5	PIT	Savoie	9	-4
6	WSH	Jiricek	6	0
7	VGK	gauthier	5	2
8	STL	lakkerimaki	15	-7
9	STL	nazar	13	-4
10	DET	kemell	17	-7
11	STL	mateychuck	12	-1
12	CAR	pavel mintyukov	10	2
13	VAN	kasper	8	5
14	OTT	geekie	11	3
15	CAGF	ohgren	19	-4
16	NYR	korchinski	7	9
17	COL	pickering	21	-4
18	TBL	howard	31	-13
19	CGF	snuggerud	23	-4
20	TOR	firkus	35	-15
21	NYI	lambert	30	-9
22	PHI	bichsel	18	4
23	NJD	kulich	28	-5
24	CBJ	yurov	24	0
25	WSH	miroschnichecko	20	5
26	COL	chesley	37	-11
27	CGF	del bel belluz	44	-17
28	MIN	ostlund	16	12
29	FLA	mcgroaty	14	15
30	VAN	mesar	26	4
31	TBL	gaucher	22	9
32	NJD	hutson	62	-30
33	WSH	hughes	51	-18
34	TOR	Schaefer	32	2
35	EDM	beck	33	2
36	CBJ	odelius	65	-29
37	PIT	lueau	53	-16
38	CHI	havelid	45	-7
39	CHI	warren	42	-3
40	BUF	goyette	61	-21
41	CGF	lorenz	56	-15
42	EDM	bystedt	27	15
43	BOS	rinzel	25	18
44	CAR	lutz	43	1
45	NJD	zhilkin	77	-32
46	OTT	trikozov	60	-14
47	COL	lund	34	13
48	BUF	nyman	49	-1
49	VAN	suzdalev	70	-21
50	LAK	casey	46	4
51	CGF	kyrou	50	1
52	BOS	perevalov	71	-19
53	EDM	sykora	63	-10
54	PHI	nelson	68	-14
55	EDM	ingram	82	-27
56	ARI	lamoreux	29	27
57	DET	salomonsson	55	2
58	SJS	mcconnell-barker	97	-39
59	LAK	dumais	96	-37
60	VAN	james	40	20
61	COL	sapovaliv	48	13
62	SEA	george	98	-36
63	CBJ	grudinin	156	-93
64	COL	ronni	59	5