Nhl Scouting Harvests Top Nhl Prospects

!±8± Nhl Scouting Harvests Top Nhl Prospects

If you want to play pro hockey, Nhl Draft has to be your destination, and top nhl prospects are harvested by Nhl Scouts. How is it then, that in hockey, Nhl draft is just like what you'd see on Wall Street, or Bay Street? Nhl Scouting for the 2010 Entry Draft brought 400 top Nhl prospects from colse to the world to be dealt and traded like commodities. Nhl Draft is relative to the stock market, as Nhl scouts are to farmers, and an Nhl hope is to a farmer's grain. Every Nhl scout prides himself upon the stock of his trade: Top Nhl prospects. Just like the stock market, first round trading has been less than predictable in 2010.

National Hockey League Entry Draft History

National Hockey League teams used to sponsor Nhl prospects without any order of fairness. Sponsorship was all based on Nhl scouting and first come, first served. Nhl scouts poured over what was called the Hockey Breeding Ground, primarily small town northern Ontario, sponsoring amateur teams and players.

First Nhl Draft Ever

Following the examples set by pro leagues in other sports, in 1963 Clarence Campbell organized the first Nhl draft proceedings in Montreal. The draft was open to 16 year old Nhl prospects only, and they couldn't already be sponsored by a National Hockey League team. Once drafted, players still couldn't be contracted by a team until they turned 18. Drafted players either went to tryout schools or were assigned to a National Hockey League sponsored junior team.

The first National Hockey League Draftee ever, was Garry Monahan from the St Michael's Juveniles of Toronto, and he was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens.
In the up-to-date past, the first Nhl Draft picks were: Taylor Hall (2010 Edmonton Oilers); John Tavares (2009 Ny Islanders); Steven Stamkos (2008 Tampa Lightning); Patrick Kane (2007 Chicago Blackhawks).

National Hockey League Universal Amateur Draft

The Nhl Draft law that began in 1963 was still routed in the sponsorship law whereby previously sponsored players were protected from being drafted by another team in the new draft system, but in 1969 the first modern draft transpired unaffected by the old sponsorship system. It was called the Universal Amateur Draft in which junior hockey players born before 1950 were eligible. These first Nhl Prospects had to be at least 19, and not necessarily from North America. 1969 was the first year a European was drafted by an National Hockey League team. From 1969 onward, teams prime draft prospects in reverse order of prior season placement.

2010 Entry Draft

In the 2010 Nhl Entry Draft, the Chicago Blackhawks and Carolina Hurricanes get the most selections: 11 each. The Florida Panthers and New York Islanders get 10 each. The Dallas Stars only get 4 picks, the fewest of all teams in the 2010 Nhl Draft.

Nine of the first 10 Nhl Prospects drafted in round one of this Nhl Draft came from the Chl, and 17 of the 30 draftees in the whole first round of the Nhl Entry Draft, came from the Chl.

If you are planning your route to the show, it would be helpful to know which leagues ordinarily get scouted by National Hockey League scouts, and most often lead to a career in the league right?

2010 Nhl Entry Draft Prospects In Round One

The first 30 Nhl Draft Prospects drafted by National Hockey League teams on the first night of the Nhl Draft on June 25, 2010 were:
Taylor Hall - Edmonton Oilers Nhl Scouting description #2 from Ohl - Windsor Tyler Seguin - Boston Bruins Nhl Scouts description #1 from Ohl - Plymouth Erik Gudbranson - Florida Panthers Nhl Scouting description #4 from Ohl - Kingston Ryan Johansen - Columbus Blue Jackets Nhl Scouts description #10 form Whl - Portland Nino Niederreiter - Ny Islanders Nhl Scouting description #12 from Whl- Portland Brett Connolly - Tampa Lightening Nhl Scouts description #3 from Whl - Prince George **Jeff Skinner - Carolina Hurricanes Nhl Scouting description #34 from Ohl - Kitchener Alexander Burmistrov - Atlanta Thrashers Nhl Scouts description #11 from Ohl - Barrie Mikael Granlund - Minnesota Wild Scouting description #1 in European Skaters from Finland - Hifk Dylan Mcilrath - Ny Rangers Scouts description #17 from Whl - Moose Jaw Jack Campbell - Dallas Stars Nhl Scouting description #2 North American goalie from Ushl - Usa U-18 Cam Fowler - Anaheim Ducks Nhl Scouts description #5 from Ohl - Windsor Brandon Gormley - Phoenix Coyotes Scouting description #6 from Qmjhl - Moncton Jaden Schwartz - St. Louis Blues Scouts description #28 from Ushl - Tri-City Derek Forbort - La Kings Nhl Scouting description #9 from Ushl - Usa U-18 Vladimir Tarasenko - St. Louis Blues Nhl Scouts description #2 in European Skaters from Russia - Novosibirsk Joey Hishon - Colorado Avalanche Nhl Scouting description #55 from Ohl - Owen Sound Austin Watson - Nashville Predators Nhl Scouts description #14 from Ohl - Peterborough Nick Bjugstad - Florida Panthers Nhl Scouting description #13 from High-Mn - Blaine Beau Bennett - Pittsburgh Penguins Nhl Scouts description #32 from Bchl - Penticton Riley Sheahan - Detroit Red Wings Nhl Scouting description #22 from Ccha - U Of Notre Dame Jarred Tinordi - Montreal Canadiens Nhl Scouts description #38 from Ushl - Usa U-18 Mark Pysyk - Buffalo Sabres Nhl Scouting description #7 from Whl - Edmonton Kevin Hayes - Chicago Blackhawks Nhl Scouts description #26 from High-Ma - Nobles Quinton Howden - Florida Panthers Nhl Scouting description #19 from Whl - Moose Jaw Evgeny Kuznetsov - Washington Capitals Nhl Scouts description #3 in European Skaters from Russia - Chelyabinsk Mark Visentin - Phoenix Coyotes Nhl Scouting description #4 North American goalie from Ohl - Niagara Charlie Coyle - San Jose Sharks Nhl Scouts description #24 from Ejhl - South Shore Emerson Etem - Anaheim Ducks Nhl Scouting description #8 from Whl - medicine Hat Brock Nelson - Ny Islanders Nhl Scouts description #25 from High-Mn - Warroad

**Surprise draft pick: How does a 34th ranked Nhl hope get to be the 7th player picked in the Nhl draft? Maybe the Hurricanes like form skaters, er, I mean, maybe they value skating technique very highly.

2010 Nhl Entry Draft Surprises

After the first three draft picks in 2010, there were many surprise round one picks. Among the surprises was that Phoenix Coyotes were able to elect defenseman Brandon Gormley from the Moncton Wildcats at No. 13. Gormley was ranked sixth in Nhl Scouting rankings.

"We had Gormley very high on our draft list and didn't indeed pay a ton of attentiveness to him, because we belief he'd be gone in the top five or six picks," Coyotes Gm Don Maloney said. "As soon as we saw him sliding... As soon as he was at 10, I started hitting the phones very hard. I was contribution our second-round pick to move up and grab him, and we liked Fowler as well." He added, "That, for us, was found money."

That statement right there is what the Nhl Draft is all about. Money. Firm strategy. Very much like Wall Street.