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2015 Leafs Draft Classs

How do teams make these selections - like is this indicative of how they rank prospect quality? I'm confused.
 
Aberdeen said:
How do teams make these selections - like is this indicative of how they rank prospect quality? I'm confused.
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Usually, it's based on their relative ability to sign and their scouting staff.

Bigger market teams tend to do better at the Import Draft unless a prospect is already playing in North America.
 
Can these guys get traded after the draft? Could be Rouyn-Noranda is just trying to extract something from London.
 
IrishWolfman said:
Little Nylander goes to the Mississauga Steelheads.
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Have to figure 'lil Nylander stays in Sweden next year, like big bro did. But I guess the Steelheads are hoping his brother's proximity may lure Alex over. Kind of tough to get a read on where Alex stands in comparison to his brother. Alex seems to have put up better numbers than Willie as a 15 year-old, but Willie's 16 year-old season in Sweden's junior league blow Alex's numbers out of the water.
 
Metalleaf said:
I'll guess that McCrimmon will give it a go to convince him to come over.
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It's really hard to go from being paid and playing in a league that has helped produce some of the best talent in the NHL to unpaid. Average SHL salary is about 120,000 Euro - 160,000 Euro.

Even if he's making well less than the average, it's likely he's making more than a lot of AHL players make. Seems like a simple decision to me...continue playing pro in Karlstad, or pass up a bunch of money and playing in a better place to go play against a bunch of 16-18 yr olds in Brandon...of all ****ing places.
 
I guess with William Nylander it doesn't really matter about the money seeing as his dad played in the NHL and made some good coin but is there any belief he might go back to Sweden next season?

Besides the ice surface being different isn't the SHL better than the AHL in terms of quality? Better quality league + playing at home + actually making money could all be a factor. Leafs brass could've told Nylander to come over and so he can get a better shot out of camp next season. Even though Nylander clearly belonged in the NHL from the games i watched in camp/preseason.
 
Leafin' said:
I guess with William Nylander it doesn't really matter about the money seeing as his dad played in the NHL and made some good coin but is there any belief he might go back to Sweden next season?

Besides the ice surface being different isn't the SHL better than the AHL in terms of quality? Better quality league + playing at home + actually making money could all be a factor. Leafs brass could've told Nylander to come over and so he can get a better shot out of camp next season. Even though Nylander clearly belonged in the NHL from the games i watched in camp/preseason.
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No. He's under contract to the Leafs. Even if he did want to go, the decision's not up to him. On the Leafs' end, there isn't any benefit to sending him back to the SHL.

Particularly to an awful MoDo team that finished last in the SHL last year, where the Leafs won't have direct control over his development, and where he won't have the benefit of playing with other Leaf prospects and have regular access to the Leafs' training facilities and player development staff.
 
Nylander is making AHL money, which isn't bad, not a huge step down from SHL money. He's also a pretty good bet to at least pick up some NHL games/pay cheques this season as an injury fill in. Also of note, his SHL team was a terrible gong show last year so I can't see him being in much of a rush to go back to it.
 
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