Spread the loveEvery sport has a few teams that can’t seem to get out of their own way. In hockey, the Ottawa Senators wear this crown, but the are giving them a run for their money. All the negative press around the Sabres recently got me looking at their painful draft record and wondering, how much different might the Buffalo Sabres look today if they had drafted by something simple like NHLe instead of picking the players they did?NHLe is a simple yet powerful concept that means NHL equivalency. The general idea is simple, how much is a point in any league worth compared to a point in...…Spread the loveEvery sport has a few teams that can’t seem to get out of their own way. In hockey, the Ottawa Senators wear this crown, but the are giving them a run for their money. All the negative press around the Sabres recently got me looking at their painful draft record and wondering, how much different might the Buffalo Sabres look today if they had drafted by something simple like NHLe instead of picking the players they did?NHLe is a simple yet powerful concept that means NHL equivalency. The general idea is simple, how much is a point in any league worth compared to a point in...WW…

Spread the loveAs seen by the never-ending rebuild, the ability to find future talent at the NHL Draft can affect a franchise for years. This is why teams should always be looking for future market inefficiencies. They should look to correct for past biases at the NHL Draft. Various kinds of biases have been shown to causes groups of prospects to be undervalued. For example, I previously looked at . In a similar vein, today we will be looking at how the league which these prospects have come from affected their value. More concisely, we will see, have players from certain leagues have been...…Spread the loveAs seen by the never-ending rebuild, the ability to find future talent at the NHL Draft can affect a franchise for years. This is why teams should always be looking for future market inefficiencies. They should look to correct for past biases at the NHL Draft. Various kinds of biases have been shown to causes groups of prospects to be undervalued. For example, I previously looked at . In a similar vein, today we will be looking at how the league which these prospects have come from affected their value. More concisely, we will see, have players from certain leagues have been...WW…