Weak vintage: Top recruits and general managers haven’t come to Quebec this season

The lack of top-level talent in the NHL-eligible pool meant that many general managers and chief scouts didn’t see fit to come and spend time in Quebec this season.

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“It’s a very average year, again one recruit from the West admits. There are three or four really interesting players, but it’s one of the weakest combinations I’ve seen. Evidence: We haven’t seen many Quebec chief scouts this year. We are We get to know them, and we usually see them, but this year we haven’t seen any.

The absence of high-ranking members of some Quebec organizations this season could have an impact at the end of the draft, adds this recruit, who works for an organization in the West.

“There are a lot of players in the QMJHL who deserve to be picked at the end of the draft. On the other hand, the Series makes it hard to convince them if we don’t attract decision makers in the league arenas and the players don’t see it. It’s hard to attract chief scouts when there are only three or four Interesting players in the first three rounds.

Domino effect

One of his colleagues confirms it: he, too, was unable to persuade his coaching decision-makers to take a trip to Quebec this year, given the lack of interesting players available to them.

“It makes an impact when they move on. You come to see Mathieu Cataford, for example, or Ethan Gautier, and you leave after you see many of their teammates as well. If you have eight, nine, 10 players that are likely to be drafted in the first two rounds, it’s What’s certain is that more players from your league will be selected at the end of the draft. It’s a domino effect,” he says, adding that this isn’t a Quebec-specific phenomenon.

The best example of this is the Seattle Thunderbirds. They have a couple of high-level players and eventually several other players on their team who have caught the eye. Most likely, if they were playing Prince Albert, they wouldn’t have had this vision. It’s a matter of logic.”