During the month of May the focus of the posts will relate to projecting the NHL offensive potential of first year draft eligible players for the 2015 draft. For the forwards we will use my projection formula called NHLP and for the defensemen, we will use a weight adjusted point formula that values non-power play … Continue reading NHL PROJECTIONS: WHAT MAKES A GOOD TOP 100 PICK
The main focus lately of this blog has been on the offensive projection of forwards, but now we will switch the focus back to defenseman today. For defenseman, there is no NHLP formula to project offensive upside, due to the fact the correlation between CHL and NHL points is not strong enough. Instead, the most … Continue reading ANALYZING D-MEN: TOP 10 PICKS 1998 – 2014
Each draft year is unique and has a mind of it own. Some draft years are top heavy with talent and other years have no superstars. Meanwhile the depth of talent can range quite differently from year to year. That is why when doing comparables, it is not a good idea to just compare a … Continue reading NHL PROJECTIONS: NOT ALL TOP FIVE PICKS ARE CREATED EQUAL
In doing a series of articles related to projecting future offensive potential of a first year draft eligible forward from the CHL, there have been a few discoveries. The first discovery is that there is a strong relationship between junior stats and NHL stats. The second discovery is that age does play a factor with … Continue reading NHL PROJECTIONS: CROSBY VS MCDAVID
NHL equivalency has become a popular tool used to evaluate prospects by accounting for the quality of the league. For example, a prospect who is playing in the KHL should put up different numbers than a players in the Swedish junior league or an American in the USHL based on the difficulty of scoring in … Continue reading THE Q IS NOT INFERIOR
It is a commonly held belief that age is a significant factor on draft eligible players. The theory is that at 17 and 18 years of age, players see a significant growth in their development and that an older player should have a higher production level than that of a younger player. Therefore, if you … Continue reading AGE MATTERS SORT OF
There used to be a time and place, that when doing my rankings, if faced with the choice of a similarly valued forward and defenseman I would always choose the defenseman. My theory was that defensemen are more valuable as an asset than forwards, as they play a more important position. While nothing wrong with … Continue reading DRAFTING DEFENSEMAN IS HARD
The main job of a NHL scout is trying to predict the future. A scout will use his experiences and scouting knowledge to give him the best educated guess to what the future holds for each player in the draft. It is the same way for a draft prognosticator, but instead of using live viewings, … Continue reading PREDICTING THE FUTURE
Welcome everyone to the Blue Bullet Report. For the past decade I have been doing NHL draft rankings that can be seen over on the Oilers message board at Hockey’s Future or in the last few years at lowetide.ca. I would never have guessed what started out as a hobby between classes at the U … Continue reading WELCOME TO THE BLUE BULLET REPORT
