GM Draft Review

GM Draft review is a May Day Hockey exclusive series that profiles every current GM and how they have fared at the draft table with their current team only. Here is the link to all six divisions where you can find each respective team and GM. Below these links I have attached some guidelines that explain some of the rules and regulations for this series. 

PART ONE: ATLANTIC DIVISION

PART TWO: PACIFIC DIVISION

PART THREE: SOUTHEAST DIVISION

PART FOUR: CENTRAL DIVISION

PART FIVE: NORTHEAST DIVISION

PART SIX: NORTHWEST DIVISION

GM Draft review is a record and indication of how each current general manager has fared strictly in a drafting sense. It takes into account their entire tenure as GM on the team that they currently manage and nothing else. Past draft jobs with other teams aren't taken intoaccount because they simply aren't important anymore when it comes to measuring their current success. For example, Brian Burke drafted the Sedin's in Vancouver with a very different scouting staff than the one he currently has with him in Toronto, thus the Toronto staff is what's important right now when evaluating Burke's drafting tenure. When deciding whether a player was an "NHLer" or not I tried to use 200 games as my objective cutoff but I was subjective when necessary. For example, Travis Hamonic was drafted outside of three years and has yet to play 200 games, but I consider him an NHLer and a guy who will be one for a long time, so he counts. These numbers aren't exact science and should not be treated as such, they are simply a rough indication of how each GM has done. The embedded link for each GM directs you to the HockeyDB draft results of that team so you can look for yourself. Ask me any questions on Twitter here. 


Unless otherwise stated, all quotes are taken from the book Behind The Moves by Jason Farris.