Andy007
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pmrules said:Potvin29 said:Joe S. said:Not sure if this fits here - but I was just falling down a rabbit hole on hockeydb, and eventually got to the 2009 draft... and I was a little surprised by what I found:
The top 10 scorers of all players picked in that draft:
John Tavares 408 164 209 373 0.914
Matt Duchene 394 120 180 300 0.761
Evander Kane 361 109 113 222 0.614
Ryan O'Reilly 402 83 139 222 0.552
M. Johansson 321 55 117 172 0.535
Victor Hedman 372 36 134 170 0.456
Nazem Kadri 233 60 85 145 0.622
Ekman-Larsson 316 49 92 141 0.446
Craig Smith 252 59 72 131 0.519
Brayden Schenn 249 51 68 119 0.477
So Kadri actually sits 7th - which, for all you hear or read about him, you'd think he'd be in the bottom 30...
But the part that surprised me was, from a ppg perspective, he's actually 3d (among that top 10).
If you go by Points per 60 minutes (because straight PPG is a bit unfair if Kadri doesn't get as much ice-time) at 5v5 since being drafted Kadri is at 2.0 P/60, tied with Tavares and behind only Duchene who is at 2.1 P/60.
Using 5v5 because, again, Kadri doesn't get the 1st unit PP opportunities that Tavares/Duchene get.
I'm probably a bigger Kadri fan than you and I absolutely believe he has a more than good shot at becoming this team's number 1 centre for the next decade...but, while it is an interesting stat, even I have to say "come on...really?".
"Come on really" what? All he did was post a factual stat.